[Samba] Synchronization of passwords - ldap and samba

[Raj Kumar]

Use the overlay smbk5pwd in OpenLDAP 2.3.4 contrib
directory!!!! However, you might experience some
problem if you want to implement password aging. 

--- linuxlady <linuxlady2714 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've configured a LDAP/Samba server.  I've got
> password syncing working partly:
> 
> -- windows client - users can change their password
> and pam_smbpass.so
> will change the ldap password.
> 
> -- LDAP server - user logs on to LDAP server, the
> ldap password can be
> changed and pam_smbpass.so will change the samba
> password.
> 
> Here is the problem.  On the linux client, the user
> can change his
> password using the passwd command, and the user's
> ldap password will
> be changed - but it doesn't seem to change the
> user's samba password.
> 
> On the LDAP Server (SuSE 9.3), I'm using:
> 
> /etc/pam.d/passwd
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth     include        common-auth
> account  include        common-account
> password include        common-password
> session  include        common-session
> password required       pam_smbpass.so  use_authtok 
>    use_first_pass
> 
> /etc/samba/smb.conf
> ldap password sync = yes
> 
> How can I get password syncing to work from both the
> linux and windows clients?
> 
> The linux client is running ubuntu.
> 
> Yasi
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