[Samba] SAMBA PDC with LDAP backend syncing unix/samba accounts ...

[Edmundo Valle Neto]

Jason Waters escreveu:
> I'm coming into this half way through but won't ldap passwd sync = yes
> work?  Or does that only work when you change your password from samba?
>
> Jason Waters
>
> (...)
> You can use "smbpasswd -r pdcname".
> This is the simplest way to change the password.
>
> If you really want to use the passwd command, you will need to use 
> winbind in these workstations and the pam_winbind.so pam module to 
> change the password trough it.
>
> You could even use smbldap-passwd to change the password directly in the 
> base, but you would need to make some changes in the script first.
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Edmundo Valle Neto
>   


Yes, it will only work for commands that relies on samba itself to 
change the password. Here passwd is NOT included.
Is was shown three approaches, using samba (smbpasswd), using PAM 
(passwd) and using LDAP directly.

Regards.

Edmundo Valle Neto