[Fedora-directory-users] Samba/Fedora DS/Windows Password Sync

[Phil Allred]

Here at Brooklyn Law School, we use Fedora DS together with a samba 
schema quite succesfully.   All students and most faculty log in to  lab 
computers and desktops  that are members of  a Samba domain. We avoid 
using NT servers as much as possible for open source reasons, but our 
faculty is hoping we can move them to an exchange server running on NT 
2003.  In a test environment, we were able to get password sync 
happening between an NT server and a replica of our DS,  but are 
wondering how to keep our samba passwords updated.  Currently, we have a 
web front end pointed at a perl script loosely based on the smb-ldap 
scripts from IDEALX.  These keep our sambantpassword, sambalmpassword, 
and unix passwords synced. 

 If we continue to use this script to update passwords on Fedora DS, 
will fedora pick up the password and send it down to the windows 
server?  I assume there is not much I could do to get it to work in the 
other direction, which would be ok -- we would require users to continue 
to change their passwords through our web front end.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Phil Allred