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Longman, Bill wrote: |
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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, |
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>> and soon 15 |
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>> Apple Xserves. Previously no real policies of any sort |
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>> 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 |
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>> Directory. |
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>> I've begun setting up our new Apple XRaid and it's cluster |
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>> 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 |
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>> could also |
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>> integrate all the Linux servers into this scheme. |
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>> |
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>> Basically I would like to use Active Directory to manage |
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>> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> 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 |
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>> unnecessary headaches. |
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> |
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> I've looked into this same thing, Brian. I have one XServe, and lots of the |
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> other servers - Win2k3, Win2k, Linux, Solaris. One of the things that you |
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> might consider is looking at Windows Services for Unix. You can then put the |
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> UID/GID info in AD. |
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> You should look at winbind, ldap, ldapsam and kerberos USE flags. Prolly |
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> pam, too. |
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> Bill |
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I would agree on all of those except for kerberos. If you want to know |
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why there's plenty of articles on the web that will help you realize why |
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it's bad. ldap and windbind are my first two choices |
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Kyle |
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