Setting unicodePwd hashes directly
Michael Wood
esiotrot at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 02:40:18 MDT 2010
Hi
When migrating users from e.g. Apple Open Directory one can get the
arcfour-hmac-md5 hashes and shove them into Samba's directory. When I
did this a couple of months ago I could just use
ldbadd/ldbmodify/ldbedit to add the hashes and I believe I just used
/usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb as the path to connect to.
Now when I try that, I get an error saying that I can't set unicodePwd directly:
# ldbedit -H /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb CN=Administrator unicodePwd
failed to modify CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com -
setup_io: it's not allowed to set the NT hash password directly'
# 0 adds 0 modifies 0 deletes
If I connect to sam.ldb.d/DC=EXAMPLE,DC=COM.ldb instead, then it seems to work:
# ldbedit -H /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb.d/DC\=EXAMPLE\,DC\=COM.ldb
CN=Administrator unicodePwd
# 0 adds 1 modifies 0 deletes
Is this an acceptable workaround? Or could it break things to use the
second method? Is there a better way to set these hashes directly?
--
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>
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