[Samba] smbpasswd to LDAP

[Paul Gienger]

>>I don't think I was clear here, I didn't say to point it at your
>>smbpasswd file, instead I said passsword file.  You already stated that
>>you didn't have the windows passwords in LDAP so there shouldn't be any
>>overlap there.  My concern was how it would handle if you had somehow
>>gotten the sambaSamAccount objectClass on the users already.
>>    
>>
>
>I really do not follow what you suggested I try with the pdbedit command.  All
>I'm interested in is the LM and NT hashes inside of the sambapassword file on
>my production server.  How would the pdbedit command help me get those LM and
>NT hashes into my LDAP database on my new server?
>  
>
It would help you because that is exactly what it does.  If you have 
ldap set up and working already, so that a newly added user works, the 
command should be something like

pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd.old

otherwise you'd have to specify the ldapsam with the -e flag

Quoting the man page

       -i passdb-backend
              Use a different passdb backend to retrieve users than the 
one specified in smb.conf. Can be used to import data into your  lo-
              cal user database.

              This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to 
another.

       -e passdb-backend
              Exports all currently available users to the specified 
password database backend.

              This option will ease migration from one passdb backend to 
another and will ease backing up.

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