password synchronization with samba3

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 12:22 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Christian <chanlists at googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > we have an odd scenario here where we would like to synchronize
> > passwords in Kerberos with a Samba3 PDC. One option I see is the
> > kadm5_hook interface, so something like krb5-sync
> > (http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/krb5-sync/) targeted at syncing
> > with samba3. Is anybody aware of projects or code or other options?
> 
> I suspect that krb5-sync would just work.  The password synchronization is
> done via the kpasswd protocol, which I'm fairly sure that Samba3 supports.

Samba 3.x doesn't really have any specific support for the kpasswd
protocol except perhaps as a client in Winbind.

Simo.

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