[Watford] MS AD and Linux

[Mark Stewart]

Thanks for the info, will read and digest later today.

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