[Samba] Sync unixUserPassword from AD Password

Sven Schwedas sven.schwedas at tao.at
Tue Sep 16 08:14:42 MDT 2014


On 2014-09-16 16:10, Andrew Martin wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrew Martin" <amartin at xes-inc.com>
>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:53:29 AM
>> Subject: [Samba] Sync unixUserPassword from AD Password
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running a Samba 4.1.6 AD DC on Ubuntu 14.04. I provisioned with
>> --use-rfc2307 and have followed the instructions here to enable NIS
>> Extensions:
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_RFC2307_on_a_Samba_DC#Configuring_RFC2307_and_NIS_Extensions_in_a_Samba_AD
>>
>> I can see the UNIX Attributes tab in ADUC and have all of the attributes
>> populated. I am attempting to authenticate a Solaris server to AD, however it
>> must use the unixUserPassword field for authenticating the user's password.
>> Currently, unixUserPassword is set to the default value -
>> ABCD!efgh12345$67890.
>> It seems that I need to install Identity Management For Unix in order to
>> enable
>> syncing of the AD user's password to the unixUserPassword field:
>> http://blogs.technet.com/b/sfu/archive/2010/01/08/using-unixuserpassword-attribute-properly.aspx
>>
>> However, I cannot figure out how to install Identity Management for Unix
>> since
>> this is a Samba 4 DC. Is there a native way in Samba to update the hash in
>> the
>> unixUserPassword, or a script I could run via cron on the Samba 4 DC?
> 
> Or, does anyone know the hashing algorithm used to generate the unixUserPassword
> field? Can I manually run a command to populate this field?

What do you need that for, anyway? It's not used by any of the common
authentication methods.

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Sven Schwedas
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