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Re: hdb-ldap backend and Samba integration



On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:27 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 16:39 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi everybody.
> >>
> >> Disclaimer: I'm new to Heimdal and Kerberos in general. Despite having read 
> >> lots of documentation (down to the Kerberos RFCs), I might still ask 
> >> newbie-level questions.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to setup Heimdal, LDAP and Samba to play together. After a week 
> >> spent reading various sources of documentation, and installing a Heimdal 
> >> Kerberos KDC, I think I found the right way to go.
> >>
> >> I installed OpenLDAP-2.3.29, Heimdal-0.7.2 and Samba. Heimdal is configured 
> >> with the LDAP backend, which works properly. I'm able to add principals to 
> >> the realm, things are fine so far.
> >>
> >> To integrate Heimdal and Samba, I plan to use the smbk5pwd overlay on OpenLDAP 
> >> which changes all the user credentials (Samba hashes and Kerberos hashes) 
> >> itself when an password change extended operation is requested. This requires 
> >> Heimdal principal information and Samba account information to be stored in a 
> >> single common entry in the LDAP directory.
> >>     
> >
> > Has someone revived that module?  I asked for it to be written, then
> > never actually used it.  Last I heard it has bitrotted.  It would be
> > great news it if was going again.
> >   
> 
> Where did you hear that it was rotting? It's always been up to date and 
> is in active use...

I suspect I misremembered this mail:
http://www.stacken.kth.se/lists/heimdal-discuss/2005-08/msg00003.html

I'm glad to hear it's still around!

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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