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Re: Kerberos and LDAP password sync question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed Aug 2 15:30:20 2017

From: Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> writes:

> There's krb5-sync, which works with MIT krb5 or Heimdal.  It's designed
> to sync to Active Directory, so while it does sync passwords via LDAP,
> I'm not sure it will work with just any LDAP server as the target.

> https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/krb5-sync/

It doesn't use LDAP to store the password, only the account status.  It
uses the Kerberos password change protocol to store the password.  So that
won't be immediately helpful for a generic LDAP server.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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