[Samba] Re: Linux Authentication Ideas
Linux Addict
linuxaddict7 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 13:37:49 GMT 2008
Linux Addict wrote:
> Hello Everyone, I have been tasked to work on consolidating
> authentication to achieve single sign-on using Active Directory.
>
> We have mix of Linux and Windows Hosts. All Linux hosts do local
> authentication currently and Windows hosts authenticates Active
> directory.
>
> I have been thinking of using Samba to authenticate Linux Hosts
> against Active Directory. I am fairly confident of configuring
> straight Linux to AD authentication. But we have 2 Active Directory
> forests. AD2 is trusted by AD1 and all the Linux hosts will be part of
> AD1.
>
> The idea is to have a AD1 resource and AD2 users. So we will need
> Linux Hosts to authenticate users of both AD1 and AD2. I am not sure
> about how to map uid/gid and also weather kerboros will be able to
> authenticate both Domains.
>
> If you guys can throw some ideas on how to achieve this, that will be
> great.
>
> Cheers, LA
>
Pump.. sorry.. I haven't heard from anyone.
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