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[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 17:53 -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Ben Duncan wrote:
> > Integrate with Microsoft Active Directory for user accounts;
> 
> I think this one item will greatly limit the range of solutions that can be 
> proposed.

Not at all. If you based it on openSUSE, joining an AD is as simple as
can be (a nice GUI handles all the details). Then, authentication can be
either linux, or the AD. An AD user who logs in to the linux box need
not have a prior account. It will be made on the fly. And, accessing SMB
shares made available by the linux box and validating against the AD
simply works. The only requirement in setting it up (on openSUSE) are:

1) The linux box shares the NTP server with the AD system. Clocks must
be very close.

2) You need a password on the AD machine when the linux box first joins
the AD. It is never needed again. But you need it that first time.

I can ssh to the linux box using an AD user/password. It is handled in
PAM. So all verification that goes through PAM gets AD verification.

YMMV on other linux distros. I can only tell how it works for me on
opneSUSE.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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