[Fedora-directory-users] Windows Sync
Rich Megginson
rmeggins at redhat.com
Sat Dec 15 01:14:58 UTC 2007
Scott Belnap wrote:
> I have a fresh AD install and have set up a Windows Sync between FDS and
> AD am able to populate AD with all my FDS accounts. My issue is when I
> first make the initial full synchronization FDS won't populating AD with
> the passwords. The only way I can get FDS to populate the password in
> AD is if I manually change the users' password on FDS. Can anyone give
> me some advice on how to get the passwords to sync on the first full
> sync process.
>
The problem is that the passwords in FDS are hashed, and AD has no way
to read those hashes - AD requires the cleartext password in order to
hash/encrypt it with its various nefarious schemes. So even if the
passwords were sent over to AD in the initial sync, they would be
useless on AD.
> Mahalo!
>
>
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