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On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:05 pm, Steven Williamson wrote: |
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> Does anybody mange a windows network from linux specifically gentoo? |
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> What software do you use to achive this. Im mostly interessted in achiveing |
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> single sign on with LDAP |
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> and controlling access to samba servers. But im also looking for |
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> possibilites regarding managing software deployment. |
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> I have had a brief look at unattended (on sourceforge) anyone any experince |
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> with this? or similar set-ups? |
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I have a system setup using OpenLDAP combined with Cyrus-SASL and Heimdal |
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kerberos. I have tied samba into it, and will eventually setup samba-tng as |
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an authentication head for samba. With samba, I may use NTLM authentication |
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to include more options for SSO. |
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The way my setup works is samba has access to use LDAP for accounting and |
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simple binds (over SSL/TLS). Unfortunately, samba doesn't support kerberos |
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based authentication "(yet)". In this setup, the users sign on to their |
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desktop, and the same login is used to access network shares without prompt |
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for another password (this happens by default on most windows desktops) using |
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NTLM. |
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Various applications using SPEGNO/GSSAPI can provide autologin functionality |
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using this same login if we chose to implement something to that effect, but |
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that depends entirely on the applications we might use. For example, IE and |
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Firefox support SPEGNO/GSSAPI, so enabled web applications may use this to |
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authenticate the client without additional credentials. Another example may |
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be squid, as it provides NTLM authentication mechanisms. |
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Even if kerberos or NTLM authentication isn't possible I can still integrate |
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other services such as pam, Jabber, samba, AND Outlook addressbook into LDAP |
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using SSL/TLS and simple binds. This makes my setup more of a flexible |
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centralized authentication system, than simply an SSO server. In the end, it |
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all comes down to what auth mechanisms the apps you're using support in your |
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ability to perform SSO. |
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I have referenced a lot of these links for my setup. With them, there should |
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be enough information to create a setup truly exact to your needs: |
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Centralized authentication howtos: |
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http://www.openinput.com/auth-howto/ |
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http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html |
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Samba (TNG) and authentication: |
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http://www.mami.net/univr/tng-ldap/howto/ |
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http://www.deschner.de/gd/dual_samba.html |
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http://www.mami.net/univr/tng-ldap/howto/sambausermapping.html |
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http://www.samba-tng.org/docs/tng-arch/tng-arch.html |
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Other misc resources: |
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http://acctsync.sourceforge.net/ |
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http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html |
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"Making the big boys play nice..." (one of my favorites) |
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http://pgina.xpasystems.com/?page_id=3 |
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In a sense, I have been trying to work toward SSO for a while. There are still |
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many things that require a password on our network though. By centralizing |
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authentication, I feel that I am one step closer. Anyway, I hope this helps. |
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Regards, |
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Robert Larson |
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