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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2003-05-09 21:52:49 +0000
committerGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2003-05-09 21:52:49 +0000
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syncing README to go along with scripts
(This used to be commit 94780f0947f7ad7d5bc83e61681148637b59d7ab)
-rw-r--r--examples/LDAP/README31
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/examples/LDAP/README b/examples/LDAP/README
index 42cf4ff33a..c7ff16ad08 100644
--- a/examples/LDAP/README
+++ b/examples/LDAP/README
@@ -4,29 +4,11 @@
!== written by Gerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>
!==
-This is a quick and dirty means of storing smbpasswd entries
-in LDAP. Samba 2.2.x does not have any ability to grab
-this information directly from LDAP so you will need to
-periodically generate an smbpasswd from an ldapsearch
-"(objectclass=smbPasswordEntry)".
-
-Be aware of search limits on your client or server which prevent
-all entries from being returned in the search result.
+This is a quick and dirty means of converting smbpasswd entries
+to sambaAccount entriues in an LDAP directory.
Pre-requisites for import_smbpasswd.pl & export_smbpasswd.pl
-------------------------------------------------------------
-You must install Mozilla PerLDAP which is available at:
-
- http://www.mozilla.org/directory
-
-PerLDAP depends on the Netscape (aka iPlanet) C-SDK which is
-available for download at:
-
- http:// www.iplanet.com/downloads/developer/
-
-
-Pre-requisites for import2_smbpasswd.pl & export2_smbpasswd.pl
--------------------------------------------------------------
These two scripts are modified versions of
[import|export]_smbpasswd.pl rewritten to use the Net::LDAP
@@ -36,6 +18,7 @@ perl module available from
+
OpenLDAP 2.0.x
--------------
@@ -68,7 +51,7 @@ You must restart the LDAP server for these new included schema files
to become active.
-import[2]_smbpasswd.pl
+import_smbpasswd.pl
----------------------
Make sure you customize the local site variable in the perl script
@@ -80,17 +63,17 @@ refer to RFC2307 and http://www.padl.com/software.html).
The following will import an smbpasswd file into an LDAP directory
- $ cat smbpasswd | import[2]_smbpasswd.pl
+ $ cat smbpasswd | import_smbpasswd.pl
-export[2]_smbpasswd.pl
+export_smbpasswd.pl
----------------------
Make sure you customize the local site variable in the perl script
(i.e. ldapserver, rootdn, rootpw, etc...). You can then generate
an smbpasswd file by executing
- $ export[2]_smbpasswd.pl > smbpasswd
+ $ export_smbpasswd.pl > smbpasswd
NOTE: Server side (or client side) search limites may prevent
all users from being listed. Check you directory server documentation