[Samba] Samba AD External Authentication to OpenDJ

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 16:44:14 +0800 (SGT)
Wong Kee Wee via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> >This still will not work, just port your users etc to AD and use
> >this instead. 
> >
> >Do you use OpenDJ for anything other than authentication ? 
> >If so, what ? 
> >
> >Rowland
> 
> Hi Rowland,
> 
> Thank you very much for the response.
> 
> The OpenDJ is for user authentication and also user profile.
> 
> Understand that Samba AD is unable to delegate authentication to an
> external source. We'll see how we can proceed with this info.
> 

Then you do not need OpenDJ, which, from my cursory investigation,
doesn't seem to get patched between versions (unless you pay for it).

A Samba 4 AD will do everything that OpenDJ seems to do (and probably
more). It will definitely do what you are doing now and is updated
regularly for free.

Rowland