[Samba] migrating smbpasswd backend to ldap backend

[Peter Collins Wasenda]

btw, do i only have to migrate the backend when i move to ldap ? any  
other things to consider ?
Quoting Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:01:05PM +0300, Peter Collins Wasenda   
> enlightened us:
>> Thanks alot.
>> however, can't figure out what the script uses /etc/passwd for.
>> elucidate please
>>
>
> If you are referring to the line
>
> passwdfile="/etc/passwd"
>
> it is a leftover that isn't needed. Instead I use the pwd module now.
>
>> by the way, i had this "unix passwd sync" thing working until some
>> point when i upgraded my server from SuSE 9.0 to SuSE 10, so some
>> entries in the /etc/passwd file might not be in the
>> /etc/samba/smbpasswd file. do you think the script will still work in
>> my scenario ?
>>
>
> You can adjust things by UID with the line:
>
> for i in userdic.keys():
>     if int(userdic[i][2]) > 500 and int(userdic[i][2]) < 1000:
>
> which may or may not help. I did that to eliminate importing all the system
> accounts (and account with UID 500 since I had already moved it). I would
> guess that if a user isn't in the smbpasswd file, you'll get index errors,
> so that may be a modification that needs made.
>
> Matt
>
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