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I've recently begun administrating a site that has about 20 Linux |
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servers of various flavors, another 25 Windows 2003 servers, and soon 15 |
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Apple Xserves. Previously no real policies of any sort existed, so I've |
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been trying to consolidate servers and users and what not. On the |
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Windows side this was fairly easily accomplished via Active Directory. |
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I've begun setting up our new Apple XRaid and it's cluster nodes. While |
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doing this I noticed that it has some built in support for Active |
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Directory authentication, which got me to thinking whether I could also |
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integrate all the Linux servers into this scheme. |
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Basically I would like to use Active Directory to manage users, groups, |
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and passwords. Then have the Linux servers hit up against this using |
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LDAP to translate the uid and gids for some ssh access, filesystem |
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access via Samba and ftp, a few email accounts for use with |
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postfix/dovecot, web authentication, etc. I would also like to make |
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sure I can change passwords on the Linux side. |
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My limited understanding says that this is similar to an OpenLDAP setup |
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through pam/nss with the further modification of remapping some |
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attributes to Active Directory ones (or altering the AD schema, which |
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seems unnecessary to me). Oh, and then there's Kerberos to deal with, |
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which I need to do some more research on. |
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I would like to know if there's anyone out there who's tried to or |
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successfully accomplished this and whether it's any better or worse than |
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setting up a separate OpenLDAP server. I'd prefer to keep it in one |
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directory, but also don't want to cause myself any unnecessary headaches. |
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Thanks for your input, |
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Brian |
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