Fedora directory users - Oct 2005 - About the password sync feature

Hello there,

I''m in the process of installing a new LDAP directory using FDS, and am
willing to synchronize the password modifications between AD domains and 
the corresponding users in the LDAP directory. These users are not 
synchronized, but the ntUserDomain attribute is set to the corresponding 
AD account.

After reading the RH admin guide, I still have a few questions, which are :
1_ Can the Password Sync feature be implemented without having to 
implement synchronization of the accounts between AD and FDS ?
2_ When you have multiple AD servers per domain, and multiple AD 
domains, how many copies of the PassSync service do you need to install 
? Can the service be installed on only one server per domain, or do I 
need to install it on every server ? (I''m no AD guru, so I''m
not sure
how and when the password is definitly encoded on AD).

Thanks in advance for your answers,
Regards,
Thierry

Thierry Lanfranchi wrote:
> I''m in the process of installing a new LDAP directory using FDS,
and
> am willing to synchronize the password modifications between AD 
> domains and the corresponding users in the LDAP directory. These users 
> are not synchronized, but the ntUserDomain attribute is set to the 
> corresponding AD account.
Yes, this should work in the AD->FDS direction.
I don''t believe that it''s a ''supported''
configuration, but I think it
should work ok.
> After reading the RH admin guide, I still have a few questions, which 
> are :
> 1_ Can the Password Sync feature be implemented without having to 
> implement synchronization of the accounts between AD and FDS ?
In the AD->FDS direction, yes I think so.
> 2_ When you have multiple AD servers per domain, and multiple AD 
> domains, how many copies of the PassSync service do you need to 
> install ? Can the service be installed on only one server per domain, 
> or do I need to install it on every server ? (I''m no AD guru, so
I''m
> not sure how and when the password is definitly encoded on AD).
You only need to install passsync in one place.