[CentOS] Samba authentication against 389 DS
Craig White
craig.white at ttiltd.com
Wed Feb 27 15:29:09 UTC 2013
On Feb 27, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Todor Petkov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Centos 6 with 389 DS. Everything is working, I can
> authenticate my users against it etc.
>
> Now I am trying to make Samba authenticate against the LDAP by
> following http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:Samba
>
> However, it seems that Samba does not read the 'password' value, but
> 'sambaNTPassword'. I wrote in 389-DS mailing list and they said, that
> there is no way to make Samba read the 'password'. So I must end with
> two password (Samba and "normal" one). I can not sync them, since crypt
> algorithms are different and I can not just copy/paste the password to
> sambaNTPassword.
>
> Did someone else had this issue? I need some file sharing software (can
> be even a web application), which can authenticate against LDAP, so all
> the people have one password for authentication.
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and by the way… if you actually want security for LDAP passwords (userPassword), use SSHA instead of crypt.
Craig
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