ldap-backend with kerberos
Michael Ströder
michael at stroeder.com
Wed Sep 16 09:16:39 EDT 2009
Julian Thomé wrote:
>
> Now we want new users to be automatically available as kerberos principals.
> We want to create our user-accounts directly in LDAP. For each user
> created in the ldap we need a kerberos principal with the same password
> of his unix-account.
Yes, I understand that quite well.
> For authentification kerberos should be used.
> Is it possible (with the smbk5pwd-Module), to give newly created
> ldap-entries (posixAccounts) a kerberos-password automatically ??
As already said:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> OpenLDAP's slapo-smbk5pwd only works with heimdal since currently
>> heimdal's and MIT's LDAP backends use different LDAP schema.
Again: Yes, it is possible with heimdal as KDC. But not with MIT Kerberos.
slapo-smbk5pwd intercepts and handles the Password Modify extended operation
request. So you have to use that instead of simple modify request when setting
the password.
Ciao, Michael.
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