[Freeipa-users] Using FreeIPA as password backend for Samba

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:46 +0200, Tomasz Z. Napierala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently deploying IPA in our server infrastructure and I came
> across one particular problem.
> I have several development servers hooked up to IPA. Devs are locally
> developing code on them, accessing it through Samba shares. We have like
> 120+ devs currently working, so it's a big hassle to manually create smb
> accounts, while there's IPA providing logins and passwords. Is there any
> way to sync samba passwords with IPA.

If you keep samba passwords in Ldap, IPA can automatically generate LM
and NT hashes. All you need is the sambaSamAccount objectclass on the
user object.

Simo.