DELL 2385P User Manual

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 

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 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:

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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.