[Samba] Sync'ing Samba LDAP with MySQL?

[Dan Egli]

Hey all. I started asking about this about a week ago, then got so sick I could hardly get out of bed. Now that I' m basically recovered(and no, it wasn't Covid, thank goodness), I want to pick up where left off. I'm about to provision the samba domain for my test setup. As long as that works, the next step is to ensure that information in Samba's LDAP database is properly replicated to a MySQL database that the MDA & MTA read and vice versa. I can't simply configure both to read the openLDAP files because of 3rd party sfw that would integrate with MySQL making the MySQL a requirement. However, I don't want to risk things getting out of sync, where a user I created in samba doesn't have a valid email account, or a user I deleted DOES have a vailid email account. And if a user changes their password on their own on one side, I need to make sure the change is copied to the other side.

I'm perfectly content to write my own solution if needed, but I have no clue how to go about accessing Samba's LDAP information to read/write. If someone could either point me to a solution that would fix this for me, or at least point me to where I can read up on what the expected schema and authenitcation rules are, I'd appreciate it a great deal.

Thanks all!


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Dan Egli
>From my Test server