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[427]2.\" Title: winbindd
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5.\" Date: 03/06/2011
[427]6.\" Manual: System Administration tools
7.\" Source: Samba 3.5
8.\" Language: English
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[594]10.TH "WINBINDD" "8" "03/06/2011" "Samba 3\&.5" "System Administration tools"
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[594]21.SH "NAME"
[427]22winbindd \- Name Service Switch daemon for resolving names from NT servers
[594]23.SH "SYNOPSIS"
[427]24.HP \w'\ 'u
[594]25winbindd [\-D] [\-F] [\-S] [\-i] [\-Y] [\-d\ <debug\ level>] [\-s\ <smb\ config\ file>] [\-n]
[427]26.SH "DESCRIPTION"
27.PP
28This program is part of the
29\fBsamba\fR(7)
30suite\&.
31.PP
[594]32winbindd
[427]33is a daemon that provides a number of services to the Name Service Switch capability found in most modern C libraries, to arbitrary applications via PAM and
[594]34ntlm_auth
[427]35and to Samba itself\&.
36.PP
37Even if winbind is not used for nsswitch, it still provides a service to
[594]38smbd,
39ntlm_auth
[427]40and the
[594]41pam_winbind\&.so
[427]42PAM module, by managing connections to domain controllers\&. In this configuraiton the
43\m[blue]\fBidmap uid\fR\m[]
44and
45\m[blue]\fBidmap gid\fR\m[]
46parameters are not required\&. (This is known as `netlogon proxy only mode\'\&.)
47.PP
48The Name Service Switch allows user and system information to be obtained from different databases services such as NIS or DNS\&. The exact behaviour can be configured through the
[594]49/etc/nsswitch\&.conf
[427]50file\&. Users and groups are allocated as they are resolved to a range of user and group ids specified by the administrator of the Samba system\&.
51.PP
52The service provided by
[594]53winbindd
[427]54is called `winbind\' and can be used to resolve user and group information from a Windows NT server\&. The service can also provide authentication services via an associated PAM module\&.
55.PP
56The
[594]57pam_winbind
[427]58module supports the
59\fIauth\fR,
60\fIaccount\fR
61and
62\fIpassword\fR
63module\-types\&. It should be noted that the
64\fIaccount\fR
65module simply performs a getpwnam() to verify that the system can obtain a uid for the user, as the domain controller has already performed access control\&. If the
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