Another user migration idea

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

We have a hacked-together system that basically does this, along with
making users select an e-mail only password for our security system.
You're welcome to borrow whatever you like from our system, no guarantees
of course -- check out http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin/mchp.html


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On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Dana Canfield wrote:

> I've been using NISGina with sambapasswdd to migrate users from Unix to
> smbpasswd, but I've encountered a few glitches that make this less than
> desirable.  So, I've been trying hard to dream up a new solution.  Maybe
> this has already been discussed, but I'm now wondering if it would be
> possible to write a pam_unix_auth.so or pam_unix_passwd.so that would
> update /etc/smbpasswd when someone logs in?  I know this is kind of
> specific to Linux and maybe Solaris, but wouldn't pam have access to the
> cleartext password?  I don't have the programming skills to pull this
> off, but it seems like someone like Luke who has written several PAM
> modules would be able to do this pretty easily.
> 
> On a more permanent tangent, it seems that it would be possible to
> further modify pam_unix_passwd so that whenever anyone changed their
> Unix passwd, the samba passwd would be changed as well.  This might be a
> slightly cleaner method than replacing passwd with smbpasswd.
> 
> Any comments??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dana
>