[Gloucs] Linux 'Domain Login'

[Keith Edmunds]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:49:28 +0100, nhoj.patrick at gmail.com said:

> e.g. if I had to setup an office, 5 desktops, 1 file server, 1 network
> printer, totally using linux/unix how could you do the centralised
> authentication. Allow people to log into any desktop and get their brower
> and mail settings.

I'd suggest Samba with the default tdbsam backend; neither LDAP nor
Kerberos is necessary. You would set up the Samba server as a Domain
Controller, which is described at
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/secure.html and
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html,
although the rest of each of those documents will be useful if you want to
understand more about what Samba can do and how to use it.

hth,
Keith
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Keith Edmunds

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