Re: Password Migration

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

>      I am trying to authenticate all my Linux and Samba user 
> authentication to LDAP.  All works fine when I add new users but how to 
> I add existing users without changing their passwords?
>      I tried copying the values from /etc/shadow and /etc/smbpasswd to 
> the values in userPassword, lmPassword, and ntPassword but this doesn't 
> work.

Have you tried using the Migration scripts?  They will prepend the 
userPassword attribute with the correct {crypt-type} thingy.
ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf