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Let me get some background out there first. The environment I am going to be |
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talking about has a few hundred windows machines, a handful of windows2003 |
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servers, a few dozen quad processor solaris servers and an unmeasurable |
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amount of Linux boxes running Gentoo and RedHat. The environment has over |
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3,000 active accounts and at any given time there are at least 100 people |
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logged in. |
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Currently you must have 2 logins, one for windows and one for unix. We are |
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using Active Directory on a domain controller machine to do the windows |
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logins and we have NIS for all the UNIX machines. We are putting a plan |
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together to use a LDAP server to make a unified login for the operating |
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systems involved. |
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I have a gentoo box setup which I plan to install LDAP on, then import all |
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the NIS information in and test cross platform logins with. Has anyone |
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worked with NIS to LDAP conversions or have experience with getting |
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non-linux operating systems to use LDAP (instead of a windows domain |
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controller for example)? |
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Also any comments on which LDAP we should try out? We were thinking of the |
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Netscape one that RedHat has but nothing has been set in stone yet. |
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Thanks for any help. |
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Kirk |
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