samba - May 2005 - exop vs md5

WHat is the significance to Samba of pam_password exop vs pam_password md5 in
ldap.conf?

The reason I ask is that, wherever possible, I prefer to use the vendor supplied
tools for
manipulating config files. With Fedora 3 it's system-config-authentication
and it doesn't
give you the option of exop. You either enable MD5, which puts pam_password md5
in ldap.conf,
or disable it, which puts pam_password crypt in there instead. The PDC howto
from the
IDEALX guys goes with pam_password md5, but jht's guide uses exop.

In Windows XP, I share a folder "SHARED_FOLDER".
Then, mount it by using "smbmount"  to  /mnt/SHARED_FOLDER in a Linux
box
with smaba 3.0.4

Then, I invoke a stat() call to a file in /mnt/SHARED_FOLDER (in Python):
ex.
$python
>> import os,time
>> s=os.stat('/mnt/SHARED_FOLDER/A_FILE')
>> print s.st_atime ## the access time of  "A_FILE"
On the other hand,
I invoke the same process in local Windows XP,
and the printed s.st_atime are different from the one in above (smbmounted
).

How it comes?
Any hints?

Iap, Singuan
(mtime, ctime are the same, no differences)

taso wrote:
> 
> WHat is the significance to Samba of pam_password exop vs pam_password md5
in ldap.conf?
the difference is who does the password hash. AFAIK with md5 the ldap client 
is responsible of hash generation whilst with exop (EXtended OPeraion) the
operation
is left to the ldap server, this open a new world of opportunities since the
ldap
server can hash the userPassword, sambapassword, kerberos password and any
future
password at the same time, only one update is neccesary and all your passwords
will
be in sync.

see:
http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-zeilenga-ldap-passwd-exop-03.txt

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