samba - Aug 2021 - Managed Service Account

Is the Managed Service Account supported in Samba 4?

"Managed service account (MSA) or, more precisely, standalone managed
service account (sMSA) ? In Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft introduced the
managed service account, which improves security by eliminating the need for an
administrator to manually manage the credentials for each service account.
Instead, an sMSA establishes a complex password and changes that password on a
regular basis (by default, every 30 days). An sMSA cannot be shared between
multiple computers (hence the modifier standalone)."

On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 15:26 +0000, Paul Littlefield via samba
wrote:
> Is the Managed Service Account supported in Samba 4?
> 
> "Managed service account (MSA) or, more precisely, standalone managed
> service account (sMSA) ? In Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft
> introduced the managed service account, which improves security by
> eliminating the need for an administrator to manually manage the
> credentials for each service account. Instead, an sMSA establishes a
> complex password and changes that password on a regular basis (by
> default, every 30 days). An sMSA cannot be shared between multiple
> computers (hence the modifier standalone)."
Sadly this is not yet a Samba feature, but we would love so have this
feature contributed.

Sorry!

Andrew Bartlett

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