Thanks for the info, will read and digest later today.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Acreman</b> <<a href="mailto:sacreman@gmail.com">sacreman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div>There's some stuff on my site :</div><div> </div><div>You can do it with kerberos / ldap (or ldap / ldap if you really want) :</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.osiconsulting.co.uk/solutions/linuxldap.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.osiconsulting.co.uk/solutions/linuxldap.html</a></div><div> </div><div>Or use NIS and Windows Services for Unix :</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://www.osiconsulting.co.uk/solutions/servforuindex.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.osiconsulting.co.uk/solutions/servforuindex.html</a></div><div> </div><div>Windows Server 2003 R2 domains have the schema extensions already built in. Previous to that you would have to extend the schema.<br><br>
</div><div><span class="e" id="q_11491f270a68a1f5_1"><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alain Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:43:01AM +0100, Mark Stewart wrote:<br>> Hi Guys,<br>><br>> Any experience/advice on <br>> authenticatiing various Linux flavours against M$ Active Directory<br>> rather than OpenLDAP appreciated.
<br><br>I have done it for email purposes - ie look up local email address in M$AD<br>to ensure that it is valid & which exchange server to deliver to. <br><br>> I gave heard<br>> M$ offer Unix Services that extends the AD schema to support Linux account
<br>> authentication but want to avoid this.<br><br>Why do you want to avoid it ?<br>One thing that you do need are the extra bits of Unixy stuff such as <br>values for $HOME, uid, groups, ... Where do you propose to get them from if
<br>not from M$AD ? You could have parallel registration (ie both /etc/passwd<br>& M$AD) but that would be a complete pain if you have more than a few users. <br><br>--<br>Alain Williams<br>Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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