Fedora Users — Re: FC2 authentication with Active Directory

Jim Parker wrote:

I thought I was following all the very different procedures, but no luck
on log in.  I could query LDAP if I supply a user name/password when
prompted.  Also, I can authenticate with Kerberos and join a domain, but
it doesn't retain a Kerberos ticket.

The reason I'm asking about all this is so that I can use a single log
on for all the different systems (UNIX, Solaris, Windows, and of course
FC2 workstations) we have.

Again, all the help you can provide is very much appreciated.

Jim

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To: [LINICKX]; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: FC2 authentication with Active Directory

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:43:06 +0000, [LINICKX] <linickx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'd like to see your howto , i've tried this a number of times (using
various documentation) but never succeeded :-(

cheers.

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:18:38 +0100, Klaasjan Brand

<klaasjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Don't know if this helps, but I've set up windows domain authentication on a RHEL3 server by using the winbind module of

samba.

There's a lot of documentation about that in the samba package. Shortly, you can configure samba to join a domain and install a pam module that uses the samba-provided credentials to authenticate

system

users. If anyone needs a detailed description I probably should write a

howto ;)

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I'd love to see a "How-to" as well.  All of the documentation that
I've read states that there are problems with Samba 3.x and Windows
2003  (works fine with Win2K).  The most recent article I've read was
about v3.0, so I don't know if the Samba developers have fixed those
outstanding issues with Win2K3 in more recent versions or not.

It is not advisable to have Solaris (and other UNIX) systems try to authenticate with an active directory server. But if you realy want to try and get it working, you need to have kerberos installed and running on all the UNIX/Linux systems. A much better approach would be to use LDAP for this, but even that is going to be a major pain in the @%@.

Mike