[K12OSN] using Apple Open Directory for authentication

[Ryan Collins]

On 10/25/06, Peter Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> The tricky part: The district uses Apple Open Directory for user
> authentication and some sort of centralized storage.  Is anyone using
> this with K12LTSP?  For the storage, we'll just NFS-mount the users'
> home directories, but for that to work we've got to have the K12LTSP
> servers pointing to the AOD for authentication.  I'm not a Mac person
> and I'm not familiar with AOD.  As I understand it, it's basically LDAP,
> and I suspect I just need to do some PAM configuration to point to it.
> Can anyone offer any advice on this or point to any how-to's?  Thanks.

This is the same way we run it. I wrote up some stuff in the wiki:
http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Technical%3AIntegrateWithOSX

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