[ILUG] NT Accounts => Linux

[Gary Coady]

On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:53:36PM +0100, James Hunt wrote:
> Is there a way of importing NT user accounts into RH 5.2.  The Linux box
> will be used as both mail and web server (for a small school intranet).
> Originally it was all going to be NT using Exchange but I wanted to give
> them a choice of both.
> 
> I've tried asking this in various NT user groups but have not received a
> single reply in the last week, ( Is it even possible to do this?)

This post on the Samba-NTDOM mailing list details one person's attempt at
using PAM_SMB for authentication, and a custom script for creating user
accounts on the Linux machine corresponding to those on the NT box - might
be useful here. Not a complete description, but could be a starting point,
if you really want to do this.

http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba-ntdom/5137.html

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