[Samba] samba with customized ldap backend

Achim Gottinger achim at ag-web.biz
Wed Oct 12 13:41:30 UTC 2016



Am 12.10.2016 um 07:30 schrieb Arun Gupta via samba:
> Sir,
>
> Please help me out
>
> Regards,
> Arun
>
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Arun Gupta wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have configured ldap with uid='some numeric' instead of uid=username
>>
>> like that;
>>
>> dn: uid=102220,ou=User,dc=example,dc=com
>> uid: 102220
>> username: test1
>> cn: Test Account
>> objectClass: inetOrgPerson
>> objectClass: posixAccount
>> objectClass: top
>> objectClass: shadowAccount
>> objectClass: sambaSamAccount
>> mail: test1 at cdac.in
>> shadowLastChange: 15587
>> loginShell: /bin/bash
>> uidNumber: 5345
>> gidNumber: 5345
>> homeDirectory: /home/test1
>> userPassword: {SSHA256}v7vlA8YYjJ27IbPQQa8eaChdHFcnw==
>> sambaPwdLastSet: 1473165911
>> sambaLMPassword: 7e58f6a33f8b3ef68ef354180a3a1da7
>> sambaSID: S-1-5-21-4079184197-2446238136-3299756537-1008
>> sambaAcctFlags: [UX         ]
>> sambaNTPassword: 0242A7FEC5CD294F916925766089E573
>>
>>
>> when I configured samba with ldap backend then samba is not able to 
>> get user information (because samba always search attribute 
>> uid=numeric), but when I replace uid=username (uid=test1 instead of 
>> uid=102220) it works and authenticate successful.
>>
>> As I have 3000+ users in ldap and it is not possible to change to all 
>> user settings, request to you kindly give me some clue to find out 
>> the solution, I will highly obliged for the same.
>>
>>
>
Hello Arun,

So samba generates an differnt type of ldap query if uid is an numeric 
value? Can you post the queries (from ldap log) with numeric and string 
queries?

achim~



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