[K12OSN] using Apple Open Directory for authentication

[Peter Scheie]

First the good news: We're working on a ten-classroom pilot of K12LTSP 
in one of the elementary schools, putting small servers (Celeron, 1GB 
RAM) and 5-8 clients in each classroom, similar to what Daniel & William 
did in Atlanta.

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.

Petre