[gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?

[gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?

[Pandu Poluan]

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Hello list,

I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active
Directory authentication on Gentoo?

I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services.

*Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can
live without that.

Rgds,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?

[Stroller]

On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> ...
> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active Directory authentication on Gentoo?
> 
> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services.
> 
> *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can live without that.


Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box.

It was remarkably easy and basically boiled down to adding a couple of lines to the service's /etc/pam.d file; when a user logged in for the first time a ~ would be created for them on the Linux box.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?

[Alecks Gates]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Stroller
<stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> ...
>> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active Directory authentication on Gentoo?
>>
>> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services.
>>
>> *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can live without that.
>
>
> Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box.
>
> It was remarkably easy and basically boiled down to adding a couple of lines to the service's /etc/pam.d file; when a user logged in for the first time a ~ would be created for them on the Linux box.
>
> Stroller.
>
>

Perhaps you should check out "Calculate Directory Server?"  I don't
think it's very popular outside of Russia but some of it looks rather
promising.

Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?

[Pandu Poluan]

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On May 12, 2012 7:13 AM, "Alecks Gates" <alecks.g@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Stroller
> <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> >> ...
> >> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement
Active Directory authentication on Gentoo?
> >>
> >> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running
daemons/services.
> >>
> >> *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I
can live without that.
> >
> >
> > Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to
authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box.
> >
> > It was remarkably easy and basically boiled down to adding a couple of
lines to the service's /etc/pam.d file; when a user logged in for the first
time a ~ would be created for them on the Linux box.
> >
> > Stroller.
> >
> >
>
> Perhaps you should check out "Calculate Directory Server?"  I don't
> think it's very popular outside of Russia but some of it looks rather
> promising.
>

At a glance, it looks more like a Domain Controller replacement instead of
AD-based authentication for 'member servers'.

However, it *does* look interesting; if it can provide the features my
company needs, I can see us cutting down the number of Win2008 licenses :-)

Rgds,

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