From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hm4js-00066V-Nv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:15:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4A9D9Oc020453; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:13:09 GMT Received: from mail.ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4A95dGi008837 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 09:05:40 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ilievnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7066081682 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:05:39 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.4.1 (20060508) at ilievnet.com Received: from mail.ilievnet.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ilievnet.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WFrWU2rwigGs for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:05:33 +0300 (EEST) Received: from ilievnet.com (info.ilievnet.com [10.0.1.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: danny@ilievnet.com) by mail.ilievnet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E273081680 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 12:05:32 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:05:31 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server In-Reply-To: <1178781168.6803.75.camel@orpheus> References: <1178781168.6803.75.camel@orpheus> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20070510090532.E273081680@mail.ilievnet.com> X-Archives-Salt: 47a0fd1c-9ce6-431e-9f62-aecb9c871247 X-Archives-Hash: fd1868e196cf6ae3abac918cf19157ff On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > this one's a bit OT... > > I have a linux server and multiple (<10) windows xp clients. So far, > each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. > This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account > on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. > > Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for > linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the > way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the > administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be > very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. > > thanks! A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP authentication. Check theese out: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Gentoo specific: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list