[K12OSN] Authenticating against Windows AD

[Brian Chivers]

Paul VanGundy wrote:
> All,
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> I recently installed K12LTSP 4.4.1 and it is running beautifully. I am 
> now trying to make it so that users can sit down at the terminals and 
> log onto them with the exact same username and password they use on 
> Windows computers on our domain. I edited the krb5.conf file and it 
> still didn’t work. I then tried to find the pam_unix2.conf file (found 
> in SuSE Pro 9.2) and edit it but that file didn’t exist. I read online 
> to look in system_auth but I didn’t see anything I could edit that would 
> make a difference.
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> Has anyone successfully set up K12LTSP to authenticate users against a 
> Windows AD? K12LTSP in our district is pretty much pointless if we 
> cannot accomplish this. Any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated. 
> Thank you.
> 
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> -Paul
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> Paul VanGundy
> 
> Technology Coordinator
> 
> Epping High School
> 
> Epping Middle School
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> P: 603.679.5472 x219
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> F: 603.679.2966
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> vangundypw at sau14.k12.nh.us <mailto:vangundypw at sau14.k12.nh.us>
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Never tried it myself but I've heard that you have to make sure that both servers are with 5 minutes 
of each other for the clock otherwise the Kerberos bit will cause problems.

Have you tried running authconfig on the k12 box ??

Brian

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