[CentOS] Samba authentication against 389 DS

[Hal Davison]

Yes !!! Webmin is a real help on this and many many mire issues...


On 2/27/2013 10:27 AM, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> a lot of different ways to handle this - it all depends upon which language/tools you use.
>
> I have used Webmin LDAP Users & Groups module which can set the sambaNTPassword and userPassword to the same value after encryption.
>
> I have also written a framework application in ruby on rails for my current employer which does this and much much more.
>
> There is also a smbldap-tools perl toolkit which can integrate with samba and can do the same thing.
>
> Craig
>
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