Tara Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So i have gone through the archives and see a lot of people asking > if samba can use edirectory as a source for user passwords. No i'm > down the same road myself =D my company is using edirectory 8.7.3 > on Solaris and redhat enterprise linux 3. the samba server only > needs to talk to the redhat edirectory server though. From the > turtorials that i have read a lot pf people hook up edirectory and > samba for a lot of user info but when it comes time for the > passwords they rely on smbpasswd command to maintain a seperate > samba user password database. Is there no secure way of making > samba fetch user passwords from edirectory directly? -- Tara C.
What you need to extend your ldap server schema. Samba specific schema definition for your server is located in samba source distribution, in the following file: /examples/LDAP/samba-nds.schema To make it work in a secure way you have to make sure: 1) attributes operation (read, write, etc) permissions are set properly 2) some sort of secure authentication (SASL, SSL/TLS) system is deployed Cheers, -- Michal Kurowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba