Re: [Samba] smbldap-tools and disabling a user

2006-08-16 Thread Michael Gasch

 files they might leave on a filesystem somewhere).  I'm using
 an LDAP backend for Samba, and I'm using smbldap-tools to
 manage accounts.
so your posix account information is also stored in ldap.
do your users really need /bin/bash or why do you want to disable the 
posix account, too? why don´t you use winbindd on the DC to authenticate 
your (posix)users against the samba DC (pam_winbind instead of 
pam_ldap)? this will reflect all policies and you don´t have to worry 
about unexpired posix accounts


micha

Logan Shaw wrote:

Hey everyone,

When someone leaves the company, I prefer to disable their
account rather than remove it (so that you can see who owns any
files they might leave on a filesystem somewhere).  I'm using
an LDAP backend for Samba, and I'm using smbldap-tools to
manage accounts.

So, today I was going to disable an account for the
first time since switching over from plain /etc/passwd and
/etc/samba/smbpasswd, and it doesn't seem like there is any
tool that can handle both Unix and Samba accounts.

Specifically, smbldap-usermod has a -I option, which is
described as disable user.  It sets the D flag on the
Samba account info, but it doesn't have any effect on the
RFC 2307 userPassword.  I noticed smbldap_tools.pm has a
disable_user() sub in it, which is even exported from the
module, but nothing calls it, and when I tried calling it
myself from a little Perl code, it didn't seem to work.  Oh,
and I can't really use the straightforward passwd -l command,
because I'm using Slackware, which doesn't grok LDAP.

I ended up writing a little bash script which uses ldapmodify,
which does the job, but I'm wondering if there's a better way
that I'm missing.  It seems odd that smbldap-useradd supports
adding both Unix and Samba accounts, and smbldap-userdel
supports deleting both, but smbldap-usermod only supports
disabling the Samba half of things...

  - Logan


--
Michael Gasch
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution (IT Staff)
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

Phone: 49 (0)341 - 3550 137
   49 (0)341 - 3550 374

Fax:   49 (0)341 - 3550 399

--
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba


[Samba] smbldap-tools and disabling a user

2006-08-15 Thread Logan Shaw

Hey everyone,

When someone leaves the company, I prefer to disable their
account rather than remove it (so that you can see who owns any
files they might leave on a filesystem somewhere).  I'm using
an LDAP backend for Samba, and I'm using smbldap-tools to
manage accounts.

So, today I was going to disable an account for the
first time since switching over from plain /etc/passwd and
/etc/samba/smbpasswd, and it doesn't seem like there is any
tool that can handle both Unix and Samba accounts.

Specifically, smbldap-usermod has a -I option, which is
described as disable user.  It sets the D flag on the
Samba account info, but it doesn't have any effect on the
RFC 2307 userPassword.  I noticed smbldap_tools.pm has a
disable_user() sub in it, which is even exported from the
module, but nothing calls it, and when I tried calling it
myself from a little Perl code, it didn't seem to work.  Oh,
and I can't really use the straightforward passwd -l command,
because I'm using Slackware, which doesn't grok LDAP.

I ended up writing a little bash script which uses ldapmodify,
which does the job, but I'm wondering if there's a better way
that I'm missing.  It seems odd that smbldap-useradd supports
adding both Unix and Samba accounts, and smbldap-userdel
supports deleting both, but smbldap-usermod only supports
disabling the Samba half of things...

  - Logan
--
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba