Chapter 9. Users and Security

   

In this chapter, we cover the basic concepts of managing security in Samba so that you can set up your Samba server with a security policy suited to your network.

One of Samba's most complicated tasks lies in reconciling the security models of Unix and Windows systems. Samba must identify users by associating them with valid usernames and groups, authenticate them by checking their passwords, then control their access to resources by comparing their access rights to the permissions on files and directories. These are complex topics on their own, and it doesn't help that there are three different operating system types to deal with (Unix, Windows 95/98/Me, and Windows NT/2000/XP) and that Samba supports multiple methods of handling user authentication.

   


Using Samba
Using Samba: A File and Print Server for Linux, Unix & Mac OS X, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 0596007698
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 475

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