[Freeipa-users] Using FreeIPA as password backend for Samba

[Tomasz Z. Napierala]

Dnia 2009-09-23, śro o godzinie 17:19 +0200, Simo Sorce pisze:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:46 +0200, Tomasz Z. Napierala wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm currently deploying IPA in our server infrastructure and I came
> > across one particular problem.
> > I have several development servers hooked up to IPA. Devs are locally
> > developing code on them, accessing it through Samba shares. We have like
> > 120+ devs currently working, so it's a big hassle to manually create smb
> > accounts, while there's IPA providing logins and passwords. Is there any
> > way to sync samba passwords with IPA.
> 
> If you keep samba passwords in Ldap, IPA can automatically generate LM
> and NT hashes. All you need is the sambaSamAccount objectclass on the
> user object.

Thank you Simo. Do I have to manually extend schema or is there any
semi-automatic way to achieve that?

pz
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