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Tony Hoyle wrote: > Torsten Martinsen wrote: > >> 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>. > > That's just PAM authentication (or nss in the case you mention).. > nothing new there. That's why I said 'in some form' :) I realize that, but I just wanted to point out that the users need not exist locally on the machine. -Torsten