Migration from Netware to Samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Steven French wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know of any existing efforts to describe, document or
> > automate NDS migration to Samba (or directly to another LDAP server)?
> > I found a few articles describing people's experiences doing
> > migrations but they seemed pretty dated.
> 
> Not aware of any.  Unless NDS is storing the clear text (i know it
> can, but don't but doubt this is the default), you will almost certainly
> have to generate new lm/nt password hashes.
> 
> Hmmm....here's a thought. Is there a pam_nds.so module?
> How about using 'update encrypted' with a pam module?
> You can then migrate the password hashes to Samba....
> Just a thought. I'm assuming the update encrypted code
> works with a clear text login using PAM.

That it does.  (or should...)

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