Centralized Credential Management

Thanks!

After much research, this looks like the path I'll take. If you have
any "gotchas" you want to share, I'm all ears!

Thanks for the input.

George



"Francois, Jean (J.L.)" wrote:
>
> Here is what I used to set this up.
> It wasn't as easy as the doc makes it but it works.
>
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbind.html
>
> --
> Jean L. Francois - Enterprise Linux Architect
> Ciber, Inc. @ FSIC - Ford Systems Integration Center
> "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
> The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Toft [mailto:george@georgetoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:59 AM
> To: PLUG Discuss
> Subject: Centralized Credential Management
>
> Greetings!
>
> I have a need to allow Windows 2003 to authenticate users using Active
> Directory, and allow them to use a Samba file server. I would like to
> use a single user store instead of a Linux store and a Windows store.
> This brings up three scenarios:
> 1. Maintain both, but create a sync program to keep them in sync :(
> 2. Use AD, but have Linux use LDAP via AD for authentication. Is this
> possible?
> 3. Use Samba as AD. This is my preferred solution, but is it
> possible? samba.org web site seemed to indicate that it is, but was not
> explicit. Anyone have any experience/comments on this?
>
> Regards,
>
> George
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