[Samba] my samba3+ldap+SSO plan

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Nov 11 13:00:22 GMT 2003


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:10, tbsky at annsky.com wrote:
> hi:
>    our company want to use samba3+openldap with singal sign on.
>    we have several branches.people would travel arround head
>    quarter and branches with their notebooks. so we don't have
>    roaming users, but we do have roaming computers.
>    we want to use a single domain for every site, and we want
>    every site keep working even when wan link is broken.
>
>    my plan below:
> 
>    1. place one samba server and one ldap server at HQ and each site.
>    2. make every site to be a full working PDC, so every samba is
>       wins server and authenticate user via local ldap server.
>    3. at night, sync ldap entries from each brach to HQ,
>      then sync HQ ldap entries to every branch. (is this possible??)
> 
>    although samba3 has PDC/BDC architechture, but it seems need a central
> wins server. and we don't need a browse list cross sites.

No, this is not a requirement, as each site's 'PDC' can operate with
reference to the central LDAP infrastructure, without netbios.

>    in fact, we just want singal sign on for every site when people travel
> arround with their notebooks.
>    my concern is about machine account.i know client machine and server
> keep a shared seceret. but i don't know if this seceret will
>    changing over time? or the seceret will keep staic?

It changes over time, and the client will not contact the PDC to make
that change.  It will ask the local DC it is connected to.

>    and although openldap has replication feature, but multi-master
>    replication seems experimental and hard to maintain.
>    we don't need real time replication. are there existing tools for
>    syncing entries between two ldap servers?

You really should have one master LDAP server, and slaves for all the
remote sites.  These slaves will only need to contact the master on
machine account change, adding machines etc.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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