Samba cannot use the same back-end. But this isn't that big of a deal, the user would just need to change his password once before he would be allowed to use those services. UI would have to be made to instruct the user to do so, perhaps before enabling any file shares.
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:50 +0000, Huygens wrote: > About the SimpleSamba spec. The major technical problem would be that it is > not possible (to the extend of my knowledge) to synchronise already set user > passwords with Samba once it is installed. The reason is that the passwords > are kept in a hash form, thus they cannot be decrypted to be sync with Samba. > Thus, after installing Samba, each user would have to enter its password to > enable its user account. > So the implementation of the spec might be pretty difficult, unless Samba > could use the same authentication back-end as the system login... > -- Samba and system passwords should be synchronized. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24184 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
