[Fedora-directory-users] FDS - using one password for Samba and Linux accounts

[Richard Megginson]

Saravana Kumar wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have FDS configured in the server. There are windows and Linux client in
> our network. Windows users also have Linux. 
>
> Linux clients are authenticating to fds. Samba server is running in a
> different server and refers to the fds server(ldapbackend). For windows i
> had to create a separate password with smbpasswd -a username for each user
> which means samba password can be different from Linux password. Also the
> password policy doesn't apply to the smbpasswd i create.
>
> Is there a way to use one password for both windows and linux logins?
>   
No.  This has been on our wishlist for some time now.
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Wishlist#Passwords
> TIA,
> SK
>
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