[Freeipa-devel] freeIPA as a samba backend

[Endi Sukma Dewata]

On 6/26/2012 12:53 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>> IPA will keep all of your passwords in sync - userPassword,
>>> sambaNTPassword, sambaLMPassword, and your kerberos passwords. 389
>>> cannot do this - the functionality that does this is provided by an
>>> IPA password plugin.  Openldap has a similar plugin, but I think it
>>> is "contrib" and not "officially supported".
>>
>> I know that Endi did the work to make 389 be a viable back end for
>> Samba and it passed all the Samba torture tests so I am not sure I
>> agree with you.
>
> Was that for samba4 or samba3?

It was for Samba 4, but that was done a while ago. I'm not sure the 
current status of the code. It worked up to some point, but it's no 
longer maintained due to lack of OpenLDAP experts to make further 
modification since this involves Samba code that are shared between both 
backends.

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Endi S. Dewata