samba - May 2005 - Samba+LDAP on Fedora or Redhat. system-config-athentication / redhat-config-authentication

This is just a note for people who prefer using
system/redhat-config-athentication to editing
authentication related config file by hand. The context is Fedora 3,
samba-3.0.14a-1, and
smbldap-tools-0.8.8-1.

The SambaGuide for setting up Samba with LDAP says to use "pam_password
exop" in ldap.conf, but it
is not possible to set this via system/redhat-config-authentication. If you edit
ldap.conf by hand
and subsequently use the config tool, it will clober your setting, replacing it
with either
"pam_password md5" or "pam_password crypt" depending on
whether you tick the "Use MD5 Passwords"
box or not.

Whether this is a real problem I don't know. The guide published by the
IDEALX guys
for setting up Samba+LDAP runs with "pam_password md5", so it must
work in a fashion.
At this point in time I don't know enough about LDAP to say what exop buys
you compared
to md5.



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