[Samba] Samba 3 ldap password sync

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 05:32, Graham Leggett wrote:

> There is an extention available for the newer versions of openldap (not 
> sure if it is openldap specific) that will allow openldap to handle the 
> encoding of passwords for you in the various formats - this means that 
> it will "just work" no matter what software changed the password, even 
> if the software had no idea about windows. I haven't used it before 
> though - try and read up on openldap for more details.

In OpenLDAP CVS, there is a contributed password set module called
smbk5pwd.  The purpose of this module is to do exactly this.  

Now, I was meant to be testing it out, and checking it worked - I've not
done that, but if somebody wants to beat me to it, I'll be most pleased
:-)

Andrew Bartlett

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