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On May 12, 2012 7:13 AM, "Alecks Gates" <alecks.g@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Stroller |
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> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> >> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement |
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Active Directory authentication on Gentoo? |
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> >> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running |
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daemons/services. |
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> >> *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I |
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can live without that. |
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> > Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to |
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authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box. |
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> > It was remarkably easy and basically boiled down to adding a couple of |
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lines to the service's /etc/pam.d file; when a user logged in for the first |
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time a ~ would be created for them on the Linux box. |
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> > Stroller. |
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> Perhaps you should check out "Calculate Directory Server?" I don't |
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> think it's very popular outside of Russia but some of it looks rather |
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> promising. |
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At a glance, it looks more like a Domain Controller replacement instead of |
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AD-based authentication for 'member servers'. |
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However, it *does* look interesting; if it can provide the features my |
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company needs, I can see us cutting down the number of Win2008 licenses :-) |
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Rgds, |
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