On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 23:33, M.Hockings wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >You can make use of a central LDAP server. You can authenticate shell > >access against such a server as well as Samba auth. (What Microsoft does > >with actual Win2k/Win2k3 Active Directory domains is nothing else than a > >combination of LDAP, Kerberos and DNS.) > > Can you point to a step-by-step guide about how to set up such a server? > This would be one that a mere flunky who is mildly familiar with FC1 > (i.e., the non-expert) could follow and understand. I can recommend a good book on the subject: "LDAP System Administration" by Gerald Carter, published by O'Reilly... http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ldapsa/index.html -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves