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Ken's addressed the reason why you have to have a shell account. If you
don't want to grant them shell access but do want to give them Samba
privilges, you can just route their /etc/passwd listing to /dev/null.
Steve
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Beach, Ken wrote:
> > From: Peter A. Peterson II [mailto:pedro@flynn.zork.net]
> > know what you find.) I'm sure there's got to be a way to let non-shell
> > users connect, i mean, that only makes sense.
>
> There must be a "shell" account (/etc/passwd) in order to use the smbpasswd
> account. The Shell account can be disabled, and the password can be
> different than the one in /etc/smbpasswd, but the username must match.
[snip]
> The reason for the user in /etc/passwd is that *nix uses the user/group
> permissions from the /etc/passwd and /etc/group for file/directory
> permissions. Samba itself is not providing the file level security.
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