Samba 4 Status Question

[Gémes Géza]

Luke Howard írta:

>>>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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>><shameless-plug-mode>
>>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>
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>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.
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>(And yes, it does include SAMBA. :-))
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>-- Luke
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On the subject of shameless plugs, reading http://www.padl.com/Products/XAD.html it seems to me,
that XAD could be an AD DC minus the following functionality:
-Samba fileserver
-LDAP multimaster replication
-LDAP storage of schema
-M$-PAC

Am I right?????????????

Thanks,

Geza