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Re: changing samba and ldap password at the same time

To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: changing samba and ldap password at the same time
From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:04:53 +0100
Cc: Marc Mertes <mertes@uni-bonn.de>
In-reply-to: <4B163CF3.1050800@uni-bonn.de>
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On Wednesday, 2 December 2009 11:09:55 Marc Mertes wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have a small question.
> 
> I have here a samba domain authenticating with ldap.
> If I now change the password for the regular LDAP user, it would be fine
> if the samba password would be changed at the same time. Can I do that
> with ldappasswd as well, and if yes, which parameters I need?
> Or do I still need smbpasswd to change it?
> 
> It would be great to do that 2in1 like..

If you enable the smbk5pwd overlay, and you change passwords using the LDAP 
password mod extended operation (ldappasswd does this, pam _ldap can be 
configured to do so), the slapd will change the samba password for you.

Regards,
Buchan

References:
- changing samba and ldap password at the same time
  - From: Marc Mertes <mertes@uni-bonn.de>

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