integration of samba pdc with ldap backend into kolab

Carlos R Laguna carlosr at jovenclub.cu
Mon Nov 21 15:34:24 CET 2016


El 17/11/16 a las 19:53, Geoff Nordli escribió:
>
> On 2016-11-17 02:49 PM, Jan Kowalsky wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> since I was not very happy with the available possibilities for a simple
>> management of a samba pdc (not AD) I thought about to integrate such a
>> management feature into kolab / kolab-webadmin. There are of course some
>> ready made distributions like clearos, ucs or freeipa - but they are
>> heavy and do not fit all the time in an existing environment. But the
>> main point: they are mostly not integrated into a groupware. I tried the
>> ldap account manager - but in the open source version it doesn't go
>> together with kolab because it doesn't support groupofuniquenames.
>>
>> So I did the following steps:
>>
>>    * import the samba ldap schema into 389-ds (why isn't it by default?)
>>    * added a kolab user type with all the necessary samba attributes
>>    * configured the ldap aci for enable self writing of some attributes
>>    * did some simple changes in kolab webadmin for syncing samba
>>      passwords and getting samba domain configuration from
>>      kolab.conf
>>
>> While I did the provisioning of the samba domain with the samba-ldap
>> tools, in the result we can now manage users and groups easily from the
>> kolab webadmin.
>>
>> What do you think? Is it worth to share this in any howto? Do other
>> people still use samba pdc? Would it make sense to integrate this in the
>> kolab-webadmin code?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Jan
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>
> Hi Jan.
>
> Yes, that would be very helpful.  I am just embarking on setting up a 
> new system with Samba 4 as an Active Directory DC and will also be 
> deploying Kolab 16.1 when it becomes available.
>
> thanks,
>
> Geoff
>
>
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Hi Geoff,

Last time i check samba4 does not use ldap as backend anymore, how would 
you plan to use samba4 as kolab primary backend ?


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