[Samba] Urgent - Password Migration from WINNT 4.0 to Samba-LDAP

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 18:39 +1000, haroon anwaar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on migrating WINNT 4.0 Domain to Samba. User information
> is being stored in LDAP. I have done test migration and works fine. I
> can migrate users, groups and machine accounts. But, after migrating I
> have seen that it does migrate sambaLMPassword,sambaNTPassword fields
> but it does not migrate userPassword(unix password) field. For all my
> users, in the user password field, it has got the same password which
> is "e2NyeXB0fXg=" which does not look right.
> 
> Is there any way, userPassword field can be updated with the correct
> entry  while performing migration or immidiately after the migration.
> I got around 1200 users in my PDC and I want to make this migration
> without affecting users. I can re-set the passwords using
> smbldap-passwd but its a big pain to contact every user asking for
> their passwords.

No, it is not possible to set the cleartext/md5/sha1 userPassword field,
but it is also not required for operation of the Samba part of the
server.  (The encryption algorithms are incompatible).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc.        http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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