Samba Ldap sync

[David Collier-Brown]

  If you've got a service contract report the failure
of ldap password sync as a bug against the Sun LDAP.
Bug reports and RFEs are healthy things (;-))

--dave

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 15:40 -0700, Paul Neeley wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have  compiled Samba  3.0.11 on solaris 2.9 and running with start_tls 
>>with  SunOne DS5.2_Patch_3.   I currently have samba clients 
>>authenticating against the sun one directory server and it works.   
>>Users can also log in to the solaris box and using smbpasswd can change 
>>their sambantpassword and sambalmpassword. They are also able to change 
>>their ldap passwd via the solaris passwd command.
>>
>>I have ldap passwd sync set to yes, but the ldap password never gets 
>>changed and I am unable to see any failures in the ldap access logs.
> 
> 
> Your server (not openldap) probably doesn't support the openldap
> extension 'ldap password sync' uses.
> 
> I think this is a sensible extension, and it's documented in an RFC
> these days, so perhaps you could talk to your vendor about supporting
> it?  
> 
> Otherwise, you could hack some things up via 'unix passwd sync', but
> it's far less elegant.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

-- 
David Collier-Brown,      | Always do right. This will gratify
Sun Microsystems, Toronto | some people and astonish the rest
davecb at canada.sun.com     |                      -- Mark Twain
(416) 263-5733 (x65733)   |