Re: Samba LDAP password sync

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As I understand it, the password chat is only used with "unix password sync" and is not used with "ldap passwd sync".

Are you using MD5 for your passwords?

-Matt

Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 10:55 +1000, Matt Stucky (Office) wrote:
Hi All,

I've set up FDS as the ldap back end for a Samba PDC. It is working well, but I'm having a problem with Windows users changing their password from Windows. When I use "ldap passwd sync = yes" (in the samba config) Windows users receive an error message when they attempt to change their password. What actually happens is their Samba/NT passwords are changed, but the posix password is not. If I use "ldap passwd sync = no" (default) then the users can successfully change their passwords but, as per the smb.conf man page, only the Samba/NT passwords are changed, not the posix password. I have FDS, User Admin tool (Webmin - LDAP users and Groups), and /etc/ldap.conf set to use MD5 for password hashing.

If, on the server I run "smbpasswd test_user" and attempt to change a user's password that way; it gives me the error:
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ldapsam_modify_entry: LDAP Password could not be changed for user test_user: Confidentiality required
        Operation requires a secure connection.

Failed to modify entry for user test_user.
Failed to modify password entry for user test_user
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It looks like FDS requires SSL in order for a user's posix password to be changed from Samba/Windows. I need to have the Samba and posix passwords syncronized. Do I need to set up SSL for that to work, or is there something else I am missing? I found a post where someone used "unix password sync = yes" with smbldap-passwd for the password program as a workaround for this same problem, but I would prefer the tidier and simpler "ldap passwd sync = yes". Has anyone run into this and figured out how to make it work?
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my guess is that you have something wrong with your 'password chat
script' in smb.conf or possibly something amiss in smbldap configuration
because it does work.

Craig

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