another idmap_ad question

Herb Lewis hlewis at panasas.com
Wed Nov 12 02:45:37 GMT 2008


I think you misunderstood the question but I think I found
why it does it.  LDAP queries only return the unixUserPassword
attribute if the user you authenticated as is a member of
administrators it appears. How do you control the credentials
being used by idmap_ad to do the ldap query?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>>I tried to add an attribute to retrieve in idmap_ad_sids_to_unixids
>>search. I am able to add sAMAccountName and see the value returned
>>but if I try to get unixUserPassword it is not returned. I can use
>>ldapsearch and retrieve both of these attributes. Why will the
>>password attribute not be returned by winbindd?
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> Intentionally.  The password field is filled in as '*'
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> cheers, jerry
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