samba and winbind

[Buchan Milne]

Lars O. Grobe wrote:

>Hi!
>
>This sounds promising. Is it possible to use encrypted passwords with
>ldap?
>
>Thank You, CU, Lars.
>
Yes, LDAP can use _unix_ encrypted passwords, but not yet samba 
encrypted passwords. This is under development, but apparently not very 
stable. If you set pam_smb up to do the password side, though, then you 
can use samba encrypted passwords. pam_smb will only authenticate for 
one domain currently (set in a config file /etc/pam_smb.conf), so you 
would have to sync smb passwords for multiple domains (using perl 
scripts available in samba-2.2.1a as a cron to import/export samba 
passwords from LDAP). I have not tested this yet, but it is on my list 
(for our remote facility).

Buchan

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