[389-users] LDAP to samba password synchronization

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John A. Sullivan III 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
>>     
> I forgot to mention, we did change pam as follows:
>
> password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3
> password    sufficient    pam_unix.so md5 shadow nullok try_first_pass
> use_authtok
> password    sufficient    pam_smbpass.so use_authtok
> password    sufficient    pam_ldap.so use_authtok
> password    required      pam_deny.so
>
> However, I would think this would affect password changes made only on
> the SAMBA server itself and not changes made by users at their desktops
> and reflected through to Linux.  We really need changes made in LDAP
> from wherever they are made to affect the SAMBA password attributes in
> Linux.  Is that possible? If so, how? Thanks - John
>   
freeIPA has a password plugin for 389 that syncs userPassword with the 
samba password hashes and vice versa (and kerberos too).
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