Authentication Policies in Sambs 4.22

Jennifer Sutton jsutton at samba.org
Wed Jun 11 21:57:34 UTC 2025


On 11/06/25 2:07 am, Stefan Kania via samba-technical wrote:
> 
> I now had the time to (again) test authentication-policies and silos. 
> It's still NOT working. In LDAP I see the same entries as I see when 
> configuring policies and silos in Windows but there it's working.
> 
> I think there are only three possibilities left:
> 
> 1. YOU as developer of the function, write a good working documentation. 
> Test the documentation with Samba DCs and Windows clients! That's by the 
> way I expect for ANY new function.
> 2. Fix it if it's broken and then write the documentation.
> 3. Tell the world it's not possible to get it working and take it out.
> 
> About the documentation: For the following new features I'm missing a 
> working documentation:
> 
> - Group Managed service account
> - Kerberos Armoring with FAST
> - Linux GPOs (Still not working)
> - Improved KDC Auditing
> 
> 
> BTW The source-code ist no documentation.
> 
> 

We do our best to make things work identically to Windows, but we can 
only fix problems that we can reproduce. If you could provide me 
(off‐list) with a lab domain backup exhibiting your problem, that would 
be very helpful.

Cheers,
Jennifer (she/her)



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