[Samba] Re: Samba does not change UNIX password after OpenLDAP server upgraded

John Du jjohndu at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 22:26:23 GMT 2009


John Du wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been running Samba with OpenLDAP for a few years.  We recently 
> upgrade the OpenLDAP server from 2.2.13 to 2.4.11.
>
> When users change their passwords now, only the Windows password is 
> changed the UNIX password is not changed anymore.  Samba server does 
> not log any errors   The samba configuration file did not change when 
> the LDAP server was upgraded.
>
> I do have "ldap passwd sync =Yes" in smb.conf and it used to work fine.
>
> Has anyone seen this?
>
> If I use
>
> unix password sync = Yes
> passwd program = /opt/IDEALX/sbin/smbldap-passwd -u %u
> passwd chat = "Changing password for*\nNew password*" %n\n "*Retype 
> new password*" %n\n"
>
> instead of "ldappasswd sync", what access control do I have to add to 
> the slapd.conf file?
>
> Thank you very much for your help!
>
> John
>
>
>

I forgot to mention that the Samba version is 3.0.28 on EHEL4 kernel 
2.6.9-42.0.2.


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