NT/UNIX password synchronization, using LDAP for pasword store.

[Paul Kennedy]

I'm going to try use the "unix password sync" and "passwd program" smb.conf
file directives to effect password synchronization from NT to UNIX.

Paul Kennedy wrote:

> I am trying to implement a single sign-on solution for NT/Solaris/Linux.
> Linux/Solaris is easy, I use nssswitch and pam_ldap to cause the
> authentication client tools to compare against the same userPassword
> attribute value of a single user entry in an LDAP directory.
>
> I intend for the same LDAP directory subtree to be used for
> authentication store by Samba-TNG running on Linux, so that eventually
> each entry should have these LDAP attributeTypes
>
>     lmPassword
>     ntPassword
>     userPassword
>
> Is there some feature of Samba which will cause it to synchronize
> lmPassword/ntPassword to the the userPassword attribute when an NT
> password changes ?  If not, does anyone have any suggestions for how I
> might proceed ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pk.