[K12OSN] Linux Authentication

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Fri Sep 16 19:50:09 UTC 2005


Mmmm, so you have a Linux Server acting as a PDC with Samba 3 / 
OpenLDAP, but you want the clients to authenticate against W2k3 AD.

I have no idea how you could do that but I think it might be possible 
but not as easy as to OpenLDAP

Brian


Rondall Stewart wrote:
> What about authenticating Linux to Windows 2003 AD
> 
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> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Linux Authentication
> 
> Mark Sarria wrote:
> 
>>Linux Authentication
>>
>>List,
>>
>>Please excuse me for my newbe question. I have a linux fedora core 3
>>Samba-LDAP server running in my network environment as a PDC to my
> 
> windows
> 
>>clients. I am setting up a few fedora core 3 workstations and would
> 
> like for
> 
>>the linux workstations to authenticate via the PDC. 
>>Can someone explain to me how to go about this or point me to the
> 
> right
> 
>>direction?
>>
>>Thank you
>>
>>--mark
>>
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> 
> It's quite simple, on the FC3 workstations run authconfig, this will 
> allow you to setup LDAP authentication, as your running Samba3 with a 
> LDAP backend everything should be OK.
> 
> Brian
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