RE: Exporting Windows SAM to ldif

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Paul Reilly

> > > Is there any tool to export a Windows NT SAM to some
> format, so that I can
> > > create a .ldif file and populate an LDAP tree with that info?
> > >
>
> Not that I know of.
> However if you see the SAMBA LDAP HOWTO at
>
> http://samba.idealx.org/
>
> they suggest you dump the hashed versions of the users passwords
> out of the sam and put them in your lmpassword, and ntpassword
> attributes in OpenLDAP samba.schema objects.

You could also get Symas' NTauth agent, which runs on top of the NT SAM and
exports an LDAP interface. Then you don't need to export the data at all, and
all your LDAP-enabled applications can authenticate against it directly.

  -- Howard Chu
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