From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:45:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705101145.32284.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510090532.E273081680@mail.ilievnet.com>
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Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev:
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930
>
> Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> 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:
Since Win XP also uses Kerberos 5 for authorization, adding a KRB 5 server
to this may also be a good idea. Avoids to have passwords accessible
anywhere (even not in encrypted form) and allows for true "single sign on".
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
http://sial.org/howto/kerberos/windows/
Bye...
Dirk
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2007-05-10 7:12 [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server Iain Buchanan
2007-05-10 9:05 ` Daniel Iliev
2007-05-10 9:45 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
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