[Samba] Samba 3 by Example - chapter 5 & 6 ( Manager -> sambaadmin)

[adrian sender]

Hi gordon, I don't think that is the issue here because I am able to use 
"Manager" ldif with plain text passwords.

Cheers.

Adrian Sender.


>From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>
>To: adrian sender <adrian_au1 at hotmail.com>
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3 by Example - chapter 5 & 6 ( Manager -> 
>sambaadmin)
>Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:44:14 -0800
>
>adrian sender wrote:
>>
>>dn: cn=sambaadmin,dc=ddesign,dc=com
>>objectClass: person
>>cn: sambaadmin
>>sn: sambaadmin
>>userPassword: 123456
>>
>>When using sambaadmin instead of manager samba hangs unable to connect to 
>>the ldap database, however if i change this entry in the slapd.conf all 
>>works find also.
>>
>>rootdn      "cn=Manager,dc=ddesign,dc=com"
>>
>>TO>>>
>>
>>rootdn      "cn=sambaadmin,dc=ddesign,dc=com"
>
>Given that, I'd guess that your directory server doesn't support plain text 
>userPassword fields.  Try crypt()ing them.
>
># perl -e 'print crypt("123456", "AB") . "\n"'
>ABiELdbxGY2fY
>
>So, then, your LDIF should have:
>
>dn: cn=sambaadmin,dc=ddesign,dc=com
>objectClass: person
>cn: sambaadmin
>sn: sambaadmin
>userPassword: {crypt}ABiELdbxGY2fY
>
>