Sluggers,
I've been busy converting my authentication system to LDAP for all
my Solaris and Linux boxen. Converting NT however is proving to be
a bit of a challenge. I was just given an off the wall suggestion
that perhaps we should use the latest version of Samba (on Linux of
course :-) as the PDC for the windows domain. Configure Samba to
use pam_ldap to authenticate and hey presto.
Anyone been there done that, got any advice before I charge in and
get burnt? One thing that comes to mind is encrypted passwords, the
LDAP server keeps the password in SHA format, if Samba get's an
encrypted password in whatever Doze format, how can it make the
comparison? or does Samba know how to decrypt the password coming
from the Doze box so it can generate a Unix crypt passwd for
pam_pwdb.so authentication?
Any and all thoughts gratefully accepted.
Pete
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