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

[Brian Johnson]

Sounds like what I'm looking for .. please post the url to this list when done .. I
can wait .. I want to see what's coming in Redhat 9 and it may affect my plans



rossp at ppc.ucsc.edu wrote:
>
>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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>> Brian Johnson
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