[Samba] Samba, email, LDAP and password integration and management

[rossp at ppc.ucsc.edu]

I've finally got samba working with LDAP and keeping the password
attributes in LDAP synchronized no matter where the password change
comes from.  I think this is what you mean.  I intend to write a more
thorough howto for this sometime in the near future, but if you'd like
I could prolly get you up and running sooner.

Ross Patterson
Programmer/Analyst
831-459-2792
rossp at ucsc.edu
1156 High St, Barn G, PP&C
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Brian Johnson wrote:

> I set up a test server about a year ago to try this and gave up since it didn't seem
> that the processes were quite yet in place to do it ..
>
> I am evaluating the potential for Samba and Linux accounts (including postfix email
> accounts) to share the same passwords and have a process in place to encourage users
> to change their passwords and try to prevent esay to crack passwords
>
> Could someone please confirm whether they have such a system working and how
> difficult it was to set up?
>
> When I looked at it before, it seemed that although Samba could use LDAP, it used a
> different schema from the standard system accounts and therefore there was not
> really any sharing of password data
>
> If it matters, my server I'd like to do this on is a Redhat 7.3 system
>
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