[K12OSN] using Apple Open Directory for authentication

[Peter Scheie]

After digging into it a bit, I'm wondering if it's just a matter of 
running system-config-authentication and using the GUI tool to tell the 
linux server to use LDAP for user info and authentication, and point it 
to the AOD server in the configuration (?).

Petre

Peter Scheie wrote:
> 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
> 
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