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Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 schrieb ext Daniel Iliev: |
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> On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:42:48 +0930 |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > |
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> > this one's a bit OT... |
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> > |
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> > I have a linux server and multiple (<10) windows xp clients. So far, |
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> > each windows client has it's own user and password info stored on it. |
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> > This slowly becomes harder to manage as a user has to have an account |
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> > on each machine, and has to change passwords in multiple places. |
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> > |
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> > Therefore, I'm looking for an active directory kindof server for |
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> > linux. I have minimal experience with AD, if it even is available the |
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> > way I think it is for linux, but I have no doubt I can pick up the |
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> > administration. Your opinion on your favourite, and why, would be |
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> > very useful to me. Any tips / howto would also be great. |
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> > |
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> > thanks! |
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> |
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> A possible free solution is using samba as PDC and an LDAP |
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> authentication. Check theese out: |
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Since Win XP also uses Kerberos 5 for authorization, adding a KRB 5 server |
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to this may also be a good idea. Avoids to have passwords accessible |
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anywhere (even not in encrypted form) and allows for true "single sign on". |
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> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/index.html |
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> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ |
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http://sial.org/howto/kerberos/windows/ |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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