[389-users] LDAP to samba password synchronization

[yersinia]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM, John A. Sullivan III <
jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:06 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > Hello, all.  Several hours of googling and testing have not solved my
> > problem.  We are using Directory Server as our authentication mechanism
> > for as much as possible in our environment.  So far, we have integrated
> > all our Linux servers, synchronized with AD, and are using it for
> > Zimbra.
> >
> > We have just implemented a standalone SAMBA server and are having
> > trouble synchronizing passwords.  I see plenty of examples of how to
> > have changes made using smbpasswd passed to the posix password in LDAP.
> > But that's not what we want.  We want users (some of whom use SAMBA and
> > some of whom do not) to have a single place to change their password.
> > The users are all KDE.  Changing their passwords in the KDE control
> > module for security changes everything brilliantly EXCEPT SAMBA.
> >
> > How do we make password changes executed by the users or by the LDAP
> > admin in idm-console propagate to the SAMBA password attributes? Thanks
> > - John
>

See if the allegated program smbpasswd-sync.pl can help. I use it for a
similar purpose
against a Tivoli DIRECTORY SERVER. Do perldoc mbpasswd-sync.pl for the
intended usage.

hth
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