[Samba] LDAP and Password Values

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Aug 18 22:52:05 GMT 2004


> Where I remain unclear is the ldap password sync flag in smb.conf. If set to 
> yes, does a Windows NT/2K/XP user participating with Samba3 in a workgroup 
> (security=user) automatically have his or her password transparently 
> synchronized on the Samba box the next time he or she attempts to utilize a 
> Samba resource ( if previously changed on the user workstation) or is ldap 
> password sync a Domain-member-specific implementation. 

It is domain specific because it happens at time of password change. 
Samba changes userpassword on behalf of the user.



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