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...pdc is a crucial service. Running debian squeeze with samba 3.5.6 Working on getting pam to keep ldap and windows passsword in sync. have been using smbldap-passwd with some added password tests to change passwords. smbldap-passwd works smbpasswd works in auth part of pam the migrate works with pam_smbldap smbclient -L localhost authenticates OK. If I use no ssl or tls for ldap connections in smb.conf passwd will change the windows password. If the connection to the master ldap server uses ssl or tls I get this error in auth.log. Feb 15 13:21:51 nfondy passwd[30090]: pam_smbpass(passwd:chauthtok...

...f the user happened to run passwd on THAT machine. What I really want is either: * that pam_smbpasswd be able to update the smbpasswd file on ANOTHER computer. Say on the file server via smb. Is this actually possible and I've just missed it? If so, how do I configure that? Or... * a "pam_smbldap" module that does what pam_smbpasswd does, but uses an LDAP backend in place of the smbpasswd file. I actually looked at the pam_smbpasswd code to see if this would be easy to implement. The code is very straightforward, but unfortunately this is because it hides all of the actual work in...