On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 13:37 -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: > 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). I'm very interested in implementing freeIPA as it matures and as we have some breathing room after our initial product rollout. Is there any way to do this without researching and deploying a new product? Anything either built into 389 or PAM? Thanks - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
