Re: [389-users] LDAP to samba password synchronization

[yersinia]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:13 PM, John A. Sullivan III <
jsullivan(a)opensourcedevel.com&gt; 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