NTLM LDAP synchronization
keith morse
kgmorse
Tue Feb 22 11:53:02 PST 2005
Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was presented with an interesting problem today:
>
> I have a Windows NT server that contains the user login IDs and
> passwords. I need to extract or somehow synchronize the existing user
> IDs and passwords with an external LDAP directory. I Googled around and
> the best I could come up with was a HOWTO for installing LDAP and Samba
> and getting both synchronized. The problem is that this HOWTO assumes
> that there are no existing users and we are starting with a clean slate.
> This is not the case I am facing now, where there are live users on the
> NT server.
>
> One way I can think of is cracking each password and adding them into
> the LDAP, but besides the potential legal and ethical issues, this
> manual method will break down when users change their passwords.
>
> Does anyone know of an existing extraction or synchronization tool?
This tidbit might be of some assistance, but it won't help with extracting of passwords.
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/postfix-exchange-users.html
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