[Samba] Sync unixUserPassword from AD Password

[Andrew Martin]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rowland Penny" <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:01:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Sync unixUserPassword from AD Password
> 
> On 16/09/14 19:35, Andrew Martin wrote:
> > The method I have to use is option 2 on that page (Kerberos + LDAP). For
> > this
> > server, winbind is not an option. This blog post describes how Microsoft AD
> > handles populating this attribute, with this "Password Sync" component:
> > http://blogs.technet.com/b/sfu/archive/2010/01/08/using-unixuserpassword-attribute-properly.aspx
> >
> > How can I populate this field with Samba4?
> You are going to have to write your own script around an ldif and use
> ldbmodify to add it to your users.
> 

Rowland,

I can do that, but I don't know what the contents of the unixUserPassword field
should be. Does anyone know which encryption algorithm is used to generate the
contents of this field?

Thanks,

Andrew