Hello everybody and a BIG thanks to Rich, and the rest of you, for your kind aid. Can you please help with something else ? HISTORY------- We're currently investigating using Windows SYNC but only the password part of the SYNC functionality - no accounts. My prototype works fine - if I change a password with Windows Cntl+Alt+Del itis propogated to Redhat Directory Server (RHDS). If I change the RHDS password with a simple front end itis propogated to Windows Active-Directory (Netscape console, for example, or a script with userpassword: secret-password ). I read the following: Directory Server passwords are synchronized along with other entry attributes because plain-text passwords are retained in the Directory Server changelog. Source: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/8.0/Windows_Sync.html#Windows_Sync-About_Windows_Sync PROBLEM ?--------- I think this only works with RHDS and password changing front-ends that send the password unencrypted. For example, if I do something like the following with RHDS: ./ldapmodify -P "/root/.mozilla/firefox/acu5w0yl.default/cert8.db" -c -h ${DEST_HOST} -p ${DEST_PORT} -D "${DEST_BIND}" -w $DESTDN_PASSWORD <<EOFdn: uid=${TGI},ou=People,${DEST_SUFFIX}changetype: modifyreplace: userpassworduserpassword: {SHA}v9KDMpMQgX13LuXtmWzmSaIcNGM=EOF Note: Please note the {SHA} stuff in 'userpassword'. I cannot see how, using the changelog, RHDS can unencrypt the password from {SHA} so as to re-encode it in unicodePwd for sending to Active-Directory. unicodePwd: good link http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2007-07/010.html My tests show that it doesn't work: After running the script I cannot login to Windowsusing my account/secret-password. If however, I change my script to use the password unencrypted (userpassword: secret-password) the propogation works again and I can log into my Windows client. Q1. Am I correct that it only works with RHDS front-ends that send the password unencrypted ? Thanks, _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/events.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20090116/c161d56b/attachment.html
