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Setting Up passwd and group Files 7-1
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This chapter describes how to set up the
passwd
and
group
files on the filer so that
the filer can authenticate users.
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You should use the information in this chapter if your filer is licensed for the CIFS pro-
tocol and does not use a Windows NT domain controller to authenticate users.
If your filer does use a Windows NT domain controller, skip this chapter and continue
with Chapter 8, "Configuring Access to CIFS Shares."
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The
setup
program created default
passwd
and
group
files in the
/etc
directory of the
filer default volume.
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The filer uses
passwd
and
group
files for the following reasons:
To authenticate users for CIFS access and to translate user and group names in
the
/etc/quotas
file to UIDs and GIDs
If the filer uses a Windows NT domain controller to authenticate CIFS users, the
domain controller verifies the users login name and password, and the filer veri-
fies that the user has an entry in the
passwd
file.
If the filer uses the
passwd
file to authenticate NFS or CIFS users, the filer uses
the encrypted password in the
passwd
file to verify the users login name and
password.
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