[Samba] exported LDAP DB > file > smbpasswd?
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Thu May 24 15:56:45 MDT 2012
Hi Gaiseric,
I tried w/o success in configuring Samba + PAM last night.
Do you know now of any documentation that would help?
- aurf
On May 24, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
> Presumably with the PGINA/LDAP solution, the has method is something
> unix-compatible (e.g. unix crypt+md5, or SSHA) that is hard to break
> with a password cracking program? Are the LDAP transmissions done in
> the clear? If so, you could sniff the traffic and capture the
> passwords. (You may not consider this ethical.) Either way, if you
> had a database of plain text passwords you could then create the NTLM
> passwords for each user.
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> You could try configuring samba to use permit plain text passwords for
> authentication. I think (but not sure) that could then configure samba
> to use pam authentication (the same way a unix login would.) But you
> would then need to configure all the Windows PC's to support plain text
> passwords.
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> On 05/24/12 16:25, aurfalien wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I am using OpenLDAP and over have ~800 users in its DB.
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>> I would like to simply use Samba as a file server, no PDC.
>>
>> I have been able to export my LDAP DB to a file containing hashes of users passwords.
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>> Is there a way I can import this file to smbpasswd or other file that Samba understands so that my 800 some odd users won't have to re register there passwords?
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>> I would really love to avoid having 800 annoyed users retyping there passwords for accessing shares.
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>> I have them currently authenticating on Windows via an LDAP client (pGina).
>>
>> - aurf
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