I went ahead and hacked an ebuild to include the smbk5pwd overlay and submitted a bug to the Gentoo bugzilla. I don’t know how well it will be received since it screws with the Kerberos dependancies, but we shall see… If anyone wants a more direct download it’s in my overlay, but I’m not gonna [...]

I’ve been looking for ways to keep passwords stored in LDAP in sync, and I came across the smbk5pwd module/overlay for OpenLDAP. It only works with OpenLDAP 2.2 or later, but it takes a lot of the headache out of administration if you are storing any combination of system/Kerberos/Samba passwords in LDAP and you wanna [...]