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From: simon at ccomms dot demon dot co dot uk (Simon Hobson)
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Subject: Re: Password Synchronisation
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In article <NauS5.141403$e5.72825@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>,
"Anthony Little" <alittle@sampford.com.au> wrote:

>I was wondering:
>
>How do I implement password synchronisation between a Windows NT 4 domain
>controller and a SCO Openserver 5.0.4 (release 3.2) machine? VisionFS
>obviously enables the mounting of Windows-accessible drives, but I still
>need to update the SCO password database from the Windows NT SAM.

As Toby Darling points out, Samba may do what you want - depending on how
far you are prepared to change things.

It is impossible to replicate passwords between Windows and Unix because
both use different one way encription methods.

What Samba can do is allow the user to change password using Sambas
password program. It can be configured to call the Unix passwd program to
change the Unix password, and only if this is successful, change the SMB
password held by Samba - this effectively allows password synchronisation
provided you don't change either the SMB or Unix passwords by other means.

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If you then get the NT machine to use Samba for user authentication, you
will appear to have what you want.

Try a visit to http://www.samba.org

Simon

PS - please don't ask me how to do this, I'm new to Samba myself.