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author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2002-08-10 20:14:32 +0000 |
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committer | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2002-08-10 20:14:32 +0000 |
commit | 3fce46ac7d790fbe9fcdd2426277857612bb252a (patch) | |
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Adding pdb_xml and pdb_mysql passdb modules.
Added some consts to pdb_test to follow pdb_methods struct more strictly
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diff --git a/examples/pdb/mysql/README b/examples/pdb/mysql/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e3cbcab8cf --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/pdb/mysql/README @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +PDB MySQL plugin for samba v1.1 +-- + +Building +========= +Before you can build the plugin, set the variable SAMBA_SRC in Makefile to the +path containing the samba sources. This is usually the 'source' directory in +the samba tarball or CVS. + +Next, type make, and then copy pdb_mysql.so to any location you want. I +strongly recommend installing it in $PREFIX/lib or /usr/lib/samba/ + +Configuring +============ +This plugin lacks some good documentation, but here is some short info: + +Add a the following to the 'passdb backend' variable in your smb.conf: + +passdb backend = [other-plugins] plugin:/location/to/pdb_mysql.so:identifier [other-plugins] + +The identifier can be any string you like, as long as it doesn't collide with +the identifiers of other plugins or other instances of pdb_mysql. If you +specify multiple pdb_mysql.so entries in 'passdb backend', you also need to +use different identifiers! + +Additional options can be given thru the smb.conf file in the [global] section. + +identifier:mysql host - host name, defaults to 'localhost' +identifier:mysql password +identifier:mysql user - defaults to 'samba' +identifier:mysql database - defaults to 'samba' +identifier:mysql port - defaults to 3306 +identifier:table - Name of the table containing users + +Names of the columns in this table(I've added column types those columns + should have first): +identifier:logon time column - int(9) +identifier:logoff time column - int(9) +identifier:kickoff time column - int(9) +identifier:pass last set time column - int(9) +identifier:pass can change time column - int(9) +identifier:pass must change time column - int(9) +identifier:username column - varchar(255) - unix username +identifier:domain column - varchar(255) - NT domain user is part of +identifier:nt username column - varchar(255) - NT username +identifier:fullname column - varchar(255) - Full name of user +identifier:home dir column - varchar(255) - Unix homedir path +identifier:dir drive column - varchar(2) - Directory drive path (eg: 'H:') +identifier:logon script column - varchar(255) - Batch file to run on client side when logging on +identifier:profile path column - varchar(255) - Path of profile +identifier:acct desc column - varchar(255) - Some ASCII NT user data +identifier:workstations column - varchar(255) - Workstations user can logon to (or NULL for all) +identifier:unknown string column - varchar(255) - unknown string +identifier:munged dial column - varchar(255) - ? +identifier:uid column - int(9) - Unix user ID (uid) +identifier:gid column - int(9) - Unix user group (gid) +identifier:user sid column - varchar(255) - NT user SID +identifier:group sid column - varchar(255) - NT group ID +identifier:lanman pass column - varchar(255) - encrypted lanman password +identifier:nt pass column - varchar(255) - encrypted nt passwd +identifier:plaintext pass column - varchar(255) - plaintext password +identifier:acct control column - int(9) - nt user data +identifier:unknown 3 column - int(9) - unknown +identifier:logon divs column - int(9) - ? +identifier:hours len column - int(9) - ? +identifier:unknown 5 column - int(9) - unknown +identifier:unknown 6 column - int(9) - unknown + +Eventually, you can put a colon (:) after the name of each column, which +should specify the column to update when updating the table. You can also +specify nothing behind the colon - then the data from the field will not be +updated. + +Using plaintext passwords or encrypted password +=============================================== +I strongly discourage the use of plaintext passwords, however, you can use them: + +If you would like to use plaintext passwords, set 'identifier:lanman pass column' and 'identifier:nt pass column' to 'NULL' (without the quotes) and 'identifier:plaintext pass column' to the name of the column containing the plaintext passwords. + +If you use encrypted passwords, set the 'identifier:plaintext pass column' to 'NULL' (without the quotes). This is the default. + +Getting non-column data from the table +====================================== +It is possible to have not all data in the database and making some 'constant'. + +For example, you can set 'identifier:fullname column' to : + CONCAT(First_name,' ',Sur_name) + +Or, set 'identifier:workstations column' to : + NULL + +See the MySQL documentation for more language constructs. |