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Re: authentication passwords

Craig White wrote:

I'm confused and trying to work this out. 
me too, wat's exactly the problem?


it adds to the users ldap userPassword::
e2NyeXB0fSQxJFhQd01XLzBrJDZXdDZMTDJPQ2dHOE5jZHpsa041UDE=

That seems to be base64 encoded, note the double colon.


seems to me that this is one of those details that I would rather never
knowing but I have to make peace between samba needs/posix
needs/customer needs to have simplicity in changing their passwords.

Evidently I don't get it. Point me in a direction?
One shot in the dark, making "passwd" work for accounts in LDAP DIT requires PAM to be setup correctly.

 Paul