Re: [Samba] Samba with LDAP Authentication
Check out SASL library's On 01/10/2012 04:35 PM, steve wrote: On 01/10/2012 09:50 PM, Amit More wrote: Hello All, I want to authenticate existing LDAP users to samba shares. From what i have been reading, it seems like there are two ways to achieve this 1. Configure samba to use plaintext passwords (encrypt passwords = no in smb.conf) and configure clients to send unencrypted passwords. 2. Use smbpasswd utility to add users. Using this utility the user's samba password will be different from the LDAP password. I don't want to use plaintext authentication so cannot use the first method described here. I also want the samba password to be the same as the LDAP password and must be in sync. Is there anyway to achieve this? Can anyone please point me in the right direction? I would really appreciate your help. Thanks, Amit Hi. We have a one password solution like you describe running on openSUSE. There is a good howto here: http://digiplan.eu.org/ldap-samba-howto-v4.html It may get you started at least. HTH Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba with LDAP Authentication
On 01/10/2012 09:50 PM, Amit More wrote: Hello All, I want to authenticate existing LDAP users to samba shares. From what i have been reading, it seems like there are two ways to achieve this 1. Configure samba to use plaintext passwords (encrypt passwords = no in smb.conf) and configure clients to send unencrypted passwords. 2. Use smbpasswd utility to add users. Using this utility the user's samba password will be different from the LDAP password. I don't want to use plaintext authentication so cannot use the first method described here. I also want the samba password to be the same as the LDAP password and must be in sync. Is there anyway to achieve this? Can anyone please point me in the right direction? I would really appreciate your help. Thanks, Amit Hi. We have a one password solution like you describe running on openSUSE. There is a good howto here: http://digiplan.eu.org/ldap-samba-howto-v4.html It may get you started at least. HTH Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] Samba with LDAP Authentication
Hello All, I want to authenticate existing LDAP users to samba shares. From what i have been reading, it seems like there are two ways to achieve this 1. Configure samba to use plaintext passwords (encrypt passwords = no in smb.conf) and configure clients to send unencrypted passwords. 2. Use smbpasswd utility to add users. Using this utility the user's samba password will be different from the LDAP password. I don't want to use plaintext authentication so cannot use the first method described here. I also want the samba password to be the same as the LDAP password and must be in sync. Is there anyway to achieve this? Can anyone please point me in the right direction? I would really appreciate your help. Thanks, Amit -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
