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Re: Heimdal KDC, Windows XP and local users

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Javier Palacios)
Fri Jan 11 12:10:33 2008

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From: "Javier Palacios" <javiplx@gmail.com>
To: "Victor Sudakov" <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
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> BTW what about Unix? Is there a way to automatically create a local
> user if a Kerberos principal successfully authenticates on the box?
> Oh well, it is not very useful after all, who in the world needs a
> Unix user with the same name and different uid on each box...

You know about NIS, so you know that you may have he same uid in
different boxes. And youger people who never heard about NIS do know
about nss-ldap. And pam_mkhomedir cares about "local profile"
creation.

Javier Palacios
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