[Samba] smbpasswd overwrites existing displayname in LDAP entry

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Ruud Baart wrote:
| Configuration: Samba 2.2.8a with openLDAP 2.1.30 on a SeSE
| 8.2. server
|
| When adding a user using a ldif file we give the user a given
| name, say Ruud Baart.  The cn and uid are the same, say
| 21cs12345 (a studentnumber).
|
| After adding the user to LDAP the displayname is as
| expected: "Ruud Baart".  However after smbpasswd -a 21cs12345
| -s secret the displayname is "21cs12345".
|
| That is, of course, not what we want. Is there any solution
| for this problem?

This is fixed in 3.0 IIRC.





cheers, jerry
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