Using Penrose (or similar software) to solve our LDAP needs

[Javier Palacios]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Kenneth Holter <kenneho.ndu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> We thought about adding posix attributes (and other relevant attributes) on
> the AD side so that everything could be controlled from AD. This would
> greatly reduce our workload, as user administration on linux could be
> carried out by existing windows user administration personell. But syncing
> such attributes, however, doesn't seem to be supported by Windows Sync, so

It is possible, and not too difficult, to directly use the AD from linux without
replication or similar things. Have a look at
http://kad.wiki.sourceforge.net/ActiveDirectoryIntegration

Javier Palacios