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Re: Quick way to migrate 500 users to Password Server or tim for SMB authentication?

I think I got things to work:

If you don't want to use Password Server, which requires OS X DNS, which requires who knows what, you can follow the directions in the Admin Guide, p. 618, to set up Authentication Manager (even though Auth Manager is deprecated and will probably cease to work sometime in the next rev cycle).

Then once Auth Manager is running, root can use:

dspasswd -l /NetInfo/root <user_in_netinfo_root_domain> <cleartext_passwd>

and

dspasswd -l /NetInfo/DefaultLocalNode <user_in_netinfo_local_domain> <cleartext_passwd>

This seems to modify both the "passwd" and "tim_passwd" properties in NetInfo. "tim_passwd" is created if it does not exist.

Now to see if I can finally authenticate from a Windows box. My ultimate goal is not to use this system, but have my various (Win2000, Linux, OS X) systems get their authentication from one (OpenLDAP or OpenDirectory) source. If anyone has the schemas and slapdconf files handy to supply all these with the correct information, and which is the best source repository for the data (ActiveDirectory, OS X Open Directory, or Linux/OpenLDAP), I'd like to hear. I'm not going to try this until my users have all gone home for the summer, or until I can afford to get another G4/XServe to play with.

Is any of this cross-platform sysadmin stuff covered in any Apple training courses or elsewhere?

Peter Zingg
Technology Coordinator
Kentfield School District
699 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
Kentfield, CA 94904
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