[Samba] Changes to userPassword attribute in LDAP for machine accounts

[Beast]

Monday, August 11, 2003, 3:10:07 AM, Bernhard wrote:



> Dariush Forouher schrieb:

>>Am Son, 2003-08-10 um 19.49 schrieb Bernhard Czech:
>>  
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>does Samba-3.0.0beta3 still requires the posixAccount object for machine 
>>>accounts?
>>>    

Yes.

>>Samba has an option 'ldap passwd sync', when set samba will update
>>userPassword whenever the two samba hashes are updated, too.
>>
> http://de.samba.org/samba/devel/docs/html/smb.conf.5.html#LDAPPASSWDSYNC 
> states that this option applies only to user accounts. The reason I 
> asked on the mailing list was that I had no clear yes or no on this issue.
> I checked my ldap replication logs about changes to the userPassword 
> attribute. There was none. Therefore I come to the conclusion that Samba 
> 3.0.0beta3 is not making changes to it.

userPassword is optional on posixAccount objectclass, why you need a
password for that?




--beast