On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 16:42 -0500, Andrew Martin wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> 
> This topic has been touched on in the past, but I'd like to ask for
> additional clarification on the structure of the internal LDAP server
> that Samba4 provides. I currently am using OpenLDAP for authenticating
> Linux servers and a number of web-based services. I also use Samba 3
> for presenting shares to Windows users, but it maintains a separate
> password database. I would like to migrate to a single sign-on,
> ideally using Samba4. I use the inetOrgPerson schema for users
> ( http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dd26/ldap.akbkhome.com/objectclass/
> inet OrgPerson.html ) and the posixGroup schema for groups
> ( 
> http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/dd26/ldap.akbkhome.com/objectclass/posixGroup.html
>  ). Does the internal LDAP server in Samba4 support these schemas? I don't 
> mind writing some scripts to manually populate/update additional fields as 
> needed, but need to know that services which expect a regular LDAP server 
> would be able to utilize the Samba4 one? 

You should be able to use both of those, and do a simple bind against
Samba4 for password validation.  You can even avoid using a DN for the
simple bind, we also accept user@realm and domain\user as the 'DN'.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org

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