[Samba] Azure AD Sync support in 4.18.0

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 1:40 AM Ralph Boehme via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/11/23 04:33, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-03-10 at 13:06 -0800, Ray Klassen via samba wrote:
> >> I'm very interested in this. Can one of the devs elaborate on what has been
> >> accomplished with this? Specifically, I'd like to know if the support is
> >> bidirectional -- can azure change passwords in samba ad?
> >
> > No, I just fixed the issue where it couldn't pull a password from Samba
> > to Azure AD
> >
> > Azure AD Cloud connect work out of the box (ish)
> > Azure AD connect needs the service account to also be made a domain
> > admin
>
> cool!
>
> While we're at it, could we document this in the wiki alongside an
> explanation what the difference between AD Cloud Connect and Azure AD
> Connect actually is? :)) It's already a year or two since we looked into
> this and my memory seems to fade more quickly then I'm able add new
> stuff. :)
>
> Thanks!
> -slow
>
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I'd appreciate it, a *lot*. I've gotten somewhat exhausted with the
out-of-date encryption and other issues on Azure AD Directory
Services, and would appreciate being able to plug-in Samba to provide
actual LDAP.