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Tony Hoyle wrote:
>PAM should allow this, as long as the users exist in some form on the
>Linux box (which I assume they do from your description).
>
That's actually not necessary with winbind. With
passwd: files winbind
group: files winbind
in /etc/nsswitch.conf, winbind authenticates Active Directory users even
though they are not listed in /etc/passwd. This is alll very well
described in the Samba docs
<http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html>.
-Torsten