[Samba] samba PDC and BDC with ldap master and slave backend

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 01:02, Jérôme Tournier wrote:
> Le Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:34:38PM +0700, Beast a ecrit:
> > Problem if master ldap is over wan and link is down. nobody will be able to change any attributes on that site. I know its not samba fault, but any advise on that setup?
> 
> and if the link is down, as computers peridically changed their trust
> account password, what will happen if they can't do that ? They'll keep
> their current password, but can they keep it a long time without problem
> in user authentication or anything else ? 

Not only will they just keep changing it, I have found that they keep
changing it to the same value.  I'll commit a patch shortly that makes
avoid touching ldap if they 'change but don't change' their passwords...

Andrew Bartlett

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