Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 22:32:23
Message-Id:	`923F0564-0AF7-4782-A1E8-F2B5E670909A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication? by Pandu Poluan

1	On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote:
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3	> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active Directory authentication on Gentoo?
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5	> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services.
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7	> Ideally, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can live without that.
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10	Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box.
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12	It was remarkably easy and basically boiled down to adding a couple of lines to the service's /etc/pam.d file; when a user logged in for the first time a ~ would be created for them on the Linux box.
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14	Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?	Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>