Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 00:11:25
Message-Id: CAKkyAYbVTWputobuSZB5P4AdYtmePixD7eaCipmOPs9xWDe_vQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication? by Stroller
1 On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Stroller
2 <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 > On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote:
5 >> ...
6 >> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active Directory authentication on Gentoo?
7 >>
8 >> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services.
9 >>
10 >> *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can live without that.
11 >
12 >
13 > Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box.
14 >
15 > 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.
16 >
17 > Stroller.
18 >
19 >
20
21 Perhaps you should check out "Calculate Directory Server?" I don't
22 think it's very popular outside of Russia but some of it looks rather
23 promising.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Active Directory Based Authentication? Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>