[Samba] update encypted and LDAP

[Martin Sapsed]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 02:13, Martin Sapsed wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I'm currently trying out samba-3.0alpha24 and moving to samba-3.0.0beta1 
>>since we're getting into XP and encrypted passwords etc. I was hoping to 
>>set everyone (about 13,000 users) up on an LDAP (openLDAP) server with 
>>just the Unix crypt passwords for now and run with
>>
>>encrypt passwords = no
>>update encrypted = yes
>>
>>for a while to populate the NT/LM password hashes before going over to 
>>encrypted passwords for everyone. (Most clients are Win 9x using plain 
>>text passwords against NIS at the moment.)
>>
>> From what I can see and have gathered from some searching, it looks 
>>like "update encrypted" only works with an smbpasswd file. Is this the 
>>case? 
> 
> The code routines call the passdb backend, whatever that may be.

Testing a bit further seems to suggest that

encrypt passwords = no

doesn't work at all if you're using

passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://..., guest

in 3.0alpha24. Is this a bug or a feature? ;-)

Cheers,

Martin

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