Quoting Steve Langasek:

>I would note that the original rationale for this bug report, password 
>synchronization between pam and samba passwords, is incorrect. 
>There are other, more general means of keeping passwords synchronized between 
>Unix, LDAP, Samba, etc. databases using PAM 
>itself which don't require any overlays on the LDAP side.

That was new information to me - could you point to a HOWTO or similar?

>This wouldn't meet the needs of arbitrary LDAP clients effecting
password changes,

Indeed. By using smbk5pwd, doing a password change will work using any
LDAP tool, as long as the tool is doing an EXOP for the password change.

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Add support for the smbk5pwd overlay
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82853
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