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Re: authenticate from LDAP (samba PDC)



On  0, dman <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
> 
> We're trying to move from lots of duplicate authentication data on
> different systems to having a single unified sign-on source by using
> LDAP.  I managed to get login and sshd to authentiate against an ldap
> server through pam.  It's cool and quite simple as well.
> 
> Now I want to make samba be the PDC for the windows machines and have
> it authenticate against the LDAP server as well.  The docs I've read
> seem to indicate that samba and pam don't play together that well.
> The only solution I can think of is to periodically rebuild the
> smbpasswd file from LDAP.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way to achieve this?  

How will people change their passwords if you do this?

Tom
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