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

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 20:37:05 UTC 2007


Jeff Gamsby wrote:
>  Using PassSync, changing the passwords from the AD/NT side will also 
> change passwords on the Fedora DS side. It will not however change the 
> Samba passwords. If you have "ldap passwd sync = yes" in your Samba 
> config, then you can use smbpasswd to change all passwords at the same 
> time. If you migrate over to an AD server in place of Samba, you can use 
> domain logins and have users change their password in Windows which 
> would also change the Fedora DS password as well.

Is there a way to sync from AD and then use LDAP authentication for 
Linux boxes that don't know about AD?  I thought I saw something earlier 
that said the Posix acount information didn't sync.  If that is true can 
you configure Linux to use whatever password does sync?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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