Change hostname etc.?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:48 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> >> 4 - Configure for login authentication from Windows domain.
> >
> > Tell us more about that. Is the authentication server setup to know the
> > desired hostnames (if that matters)?
> 
> While installing, and at anytime in the User Management of YaST, you can
> set the "Authentication and User Data Sources".  There under Samba you can
> define that the authentication is handled by a Windows domain.  You don't
> have to create local users in that case because when someone is
> authenticated their user information is created automatically.
> 
> I brought it up because after my first hostname change attempt, a
> previously successful user login failed.  Also, the SUSE KDM login screen
> usually lists previously successful login user IDs to the left of the
> input boxes.  When the hostname was changed, the list of user IDs was not
> shown.  When I saw that the list was blank, I feared that logins would
> fail, which they did.
> 
> I don't think the authentication server cares about the hostname, per se. 
> My assumption was that the authentication fails because the hostname is
> somehow mixed in with the keys and authentication process.  If a location
> that is accessed by the process still has the old name, it no longer
> matches resulting in a failed attempt.  This is just guessing on my part.
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You fail to provide any meaningful information about what you are
logging into and a Windows AD would require kerberos which does take the
hostname (and clock) into account.

You probably have to do a little homework to know. Red Hat's kickstart
works really well for this.

Craig