[Fedora-directory-users] userPassword is base64 encoded

I posted the following on the samba-users mailing list: -- I'm switching from OpenLDAP to the newly released Fedora Directory Server (formely known as the Netscape Directory Server) as a LDAP backend for my Samba domain. I'm now faced with a problem regarding how Fedora DS handles the userPassword field. Unlike OpenLDAP it encodes it in base64 so instead of reading userPassword: {SSHA}8FZY4LdYi1f1oA5YgDw/+h/Rmy0mEeyO it reads: userPassword:: e1NTSEF9OEZaWTRMZFlpMWYxb0E1WWdEdy8raC9SbXkwbUVleU8= Samba apparently does not like this because when I try to change the password using the "ctrl+alt+del -> Change Password" method I get the following error in samba.log (with log level = passdb:5) -- cut here -- [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(511) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: gg [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(511) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: gg [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_update_sam_account(1704) ldapsam_update_sam_account: user gg to be modified has dn: uid=gg,ou=People,dc=kung,dc=foo [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_ldap_from_sam(893) init_ldap_from_sam: Setting entry for user: gg [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 0] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_modify_entry(1587) ldapsam_modify_entry: LDAP Password could not be changed for user gg: Unknown error Current passwd must be supplied by the user. [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 0] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_update_sam_account(1731) ldapsam_update_sam_account: failed to modify user with uid = gg, error: Current passwd must be supplied by the user. (Success) [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:init_sam_from_ldap(511) init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: gg [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 0] libsmb/smbencrypt.c:decode_pw_buffer(539) decode_pw_buffer: incorrect password length (-988553355). [2005/06/07 19:27:45, 0] libsmb/smbencrypt.c:decode_pw_buffer(540) decode_pw_buffer: check that 'encrypt passwords = yes' -- cut here -- And a dialog from Windows that says: "The User name or old password is incorrect. Letters in passwords must be typed using the correct case." The SambaNTPassword and SambaLMPassword entries change, but the userPassword entry does not. I'm using the ldap passwd sync = Yes option in my smb.conf since the LDAP server is used for Linux authentication as well as Samba authentication. However, if I use the smbldap-passwd utility everything works like a charm. Both the SambaLMPassword/SambaNTPassword and userPassword entries are changed. If the ldap passwd sync option is set to No in the smb.conf then Windows does not complain when I use ctrl+alt+del method, but then of course the userPassword entry is not modified. The samba server is a RHEL4 machine with samba-3.0.10-1.4E and fedora-ds-7.1-2.RHEL4. Output from ldapsearch of the user gg: --cut here -- kung.foo.is /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-palladium/config/schema# ldapsearch -x -ZZ -D "uid=gg,ou=People,dc=kung,dc=foo" -W uid=gg userPassword SambaLMPassword SambaNTPassword Enter LDAP Password: # gg, People, kung.foo dn: uid=gg,ou=People,dc=kung,dc=foo userPassword:: e1NTSEF9OEZaWTRMZFlpMWYxb0E1WWdEdy8raC9SbXkwbUVleU8= SambaLMPassword: 7B9FBD79429286DBAAD3B435B51404EE SambaNTPassword: 2352D5C13878770724EA84A32EFCD485 --cut here-- Advice of how to correct this are greatly appreciated. -- The reply I got back was that it was not a Samba problem but a FDS problem. I guess I'm looking for a way to store the userPassword entry as a regular entry and not a base64 encoded one. So any advice ? -- Sævaldur Gunnarsson /> RHCE