Re: [Devel] Synchronising Linux and Windows passwords

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@xxxxxx>]

* Maximilian Wilhelm 

| Am Donnerstag, den 24 Juli hub Ragnar Wisløff folgendes in die Tasten:
| 
| > I've got Samba doing updates of the LDAP userPassword attribute when a
| > password change is initiated from a Windows client. However, this requires
| > binding using the admin LDAP user and supplying the admin password.
| > So far this is done in a Perl script and storing this admin password in
| > clear text in the script. I don't like having the password stored like this.
| > Is there another way? Is it somehow possible to access the password so that
| > it is not visible?
| 
| I'm not sure, but it guess, it is possible, to handle the passwordchange
| under Unix via PAM,

ISTR that PAM doesn't provide any way to change the authentication,
just to do the authentication.

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