Samba 4 Status Question

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Mon Oct 18 10:07:07 GMT 2004


>>May I suggest killing several birds with one stone, and making a common
>>web interface specifically for simplifying account management. IIRC
>>Windows password changes use a one-way cipher before sending it over the
>>wire? Using a direct web interface gets the cleartext password in the
>>hands of the server-side code, and thus can be applied to any type of
>>auth database.
>>  
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>Then, you might be interested in the IMC/SambaConsole project : we 
>already have a decent web interface for dealing with account management. 
>Moreover, the framework (both IMC and UserManager2 which deals with LDAP 
>accounts) are meant to be extensible. http://www.idealx.org/prj/imc/ for 
>more infos.
><shameless-plug-mode>

On the subject of shameless plugs, our XAD identity server supports
unified management of POSIX and Windows accounts, and supports the
MMC tools. More information at http://www.padl.com/Products/XAD.html.

(And yes, it does include SAMBA. :-))

-- Luke

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