[Samba] smbpasswd & ldap in Samba 3.0

abartlet at dp.samba.org abartlet at dp.samba.org
Mon Sep 2 23:10:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:39:35PM -0400, Ray Raszka wrote:
> In 3.0, when an ldap database is being used for authentication, is the
> smbpasswd file still used?? Does pdbedit update just the ldap database or
> both?

No - but (and just to add to the confusion) the 'smbpasswd' command is still
used.  All of samba's 'pdb' operations (those that used to use the smbpasswd
file, and now use that, or LDAP or a TDB or ..) all go via a compeatly
switchable interface.

Andrew Bartlett



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