smbpasswd in an LDAP directory

David Krovich dkrovich at slackworks.com
Mon Jul 2 02:12:29 GMT 2001


	What should it do after the test?  What should take precedence,
the LDAP server or the smbpasswd file?

	Give me some specs on how you want it to work and I'll modify the
code.

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Ignacio Coupeau wrote:

>
>
> Gerald Carter wrote:
> >
> > FYI....
> >
> > I just checked in a schema file for storing smbpasswd in LDAP
> > (works with OpenLDAP 2.0) and some import/export perl scripts.
> > This does not means that Samba can read information directly
> > from LDAP, but for those interested in have a cron job gernated
> > the smbpasswd file from LDAP, this will work.  Also means that
> > LDAP can be used to replicate smbpasswd to multiple servers :)
> >
>
> Looks fine, and can solve a lot of problems... perhaps in the
> import_smbpasswd.pl a test about pwdLastSet (old/newer than) may help
> with the passwd-sync for an user that changes the passwd in several
> severs sharing the same lm/ntPassword...
>
> Ignacio
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