[gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au My philosophy is: Don't think. -- Charles Manson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
-Original Message- From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 09:13 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! Hi Iain, Take a look at SAMBA, if you have limited experience with AD type stuff it may even be better to run your small network using an NT4 style domain. Regards, Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP authentication. Check theese out: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Gentoo specific: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] linux authentication server
Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, this one's a bit OT... I have a linux server and multiple (10) windows xp clients. So far, each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. thanks! A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP authentication. Check theese out: Since Win XP also uses Kerberos 5 for authorization, adding a KRB 5 server to this may also be a good idea. Avoids to have passwords accessible anywhere (even not in encrypted form) and allows for true single sign on. http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ http://sial.org/howto/kerberos/windows/ Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
