Here's a curly one.. We are helping a Uni set up a Linux cluster (CentOS 5 based) and we've found out that they have two separate Active Directory instances, one for staff and one for students.
They want the cluster to be able to authenticate against both, as users might be on either service. They have assured us that we can just their ADSs as if they are LDAP servers, which is OK, but it looks like Linux doesn't really want to know about using multiple LDAP servers except in a failover/round-robin situation. Our current best guess is to get an LDIF dump of the users who are to be given access (signified by an LDAP attribute) and then load those into a local OpenLDAP or FDS server. We do have various other wacky ideas about using Samba 4, but I don't know if that can belong to multiple AD instances.. Unfortunately our contact at the institute who knows about their ADS config is tied up for the moment so we can't pick his brains and I was wondering if anyone else had run into this sort of issue and knows if it does have a solution ? cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
