Re: [CentOS] LDAP for central authentication?
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 6:55:15 pm Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have the following on a network: 1) RHEL 5.0 Server acting as NIS and Samba domain controller 2) CentOS 5.x machines on NIS network 3) Win XP machines on Samba domain When I create an account for someone, I need to first type adduser new_person -d /home/new_person then passwd new_person, then cd /var/yp and make.Then smbpasswd -a new_person. Thus, two different databases. On another network, I have separate XP and Linux (CentOS 5.x, RHEL 5.x, and Suse) systems. No Samba, no NIS. Can I still set up a central LDAP directory for a single account database? For the NIS+Samba case, can I merge both credential files into a central database using LDAP? I would also want to control password length, complexity, aging, and other things. What is the best way to do this? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos In your case, you should look at samba with the LDAP backend. This will allow all data to be in LDAP for the non-Windows boxes, and the Windows clients would treat it as an NT4 styled domain. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LDAP for central authentication?
In your case, you should look at samba with the LDAP backend. This will allow all data to be in LDAP for the non-Windows boxes, and the Windows clients would treat it as an NT4 styled domain. OK, I'm just really new at Centos-DS, but it looks to me like it will simplify this task for you. I just finally got it set up, and authentication working for Linux SSH login, as well as Apache. This is all really easy stuff, now that I know how to do it. Even if it did take me a week or more to figure out how to get here :-) But in browsing around inn the Centos-DS admin tool, it seems to have a whole whack of NT Domain stuff built in. And I see HOWTOs out there for Samba. http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation#Howtos You should join the 389-ds mailing list. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users I have not yet jumped into any of the NT stuff, but I'll be going there soon. cheers, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] LDAP for central authentication?
I have the following on a network: 1) RHEL 5.0 Server acting as NIS and Samba domain controller 2) CentOS 5.x machines on NIS network 3) Win XP machines on Samba domain When I create an account for someone, I need to first type adduser new_person -d /home/new_person then passwd new_person, then cd /var/yp and make. Then smbpasswd -a new_person. Thus, two different databases. On another network, I have separate XP and Linux (CentOS 5.x, RHEL 5.x, and Suse) systems. No Samba, no NIS. Can I still set up a central LDAP directory for a single account database? For the NIS+Samba case, can I merge both credential files into a central database using LDAP? I would also want to control password length, complexity, aging, and other things. What is the best way to do this? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
