topic Re: Linux Authentication From Windows?? in Operating System - Linux

Linux Authentication From Windows??

Tamer Shaalan — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:22:41 GMT

Dear ALL,

I'm the administrator of a mixed netwrok that contains windows domain (2003 Enterprise server) and SLES 9.0 Linux server. I ask if it is possible to make authentication of Linux users of the server to be done from the windows domain active directory or not? This will make it too easy for users to have one account for both networks and its related applications.

ALL good replies will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Tamer.

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:27:56 GMT

Yes you can. You must configure samba (via smb.conf) and set:

WORKGROUP = domain-name
security = server
password server = 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2

You must then change the security settings to allow authenticate using SAMBA. I think that this you can do it via YAST.

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Tamer Shaalan — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:34:37 GMT

lvan,

Thanks for fast response. why these certain IP address? you should know that I don't mean samba specifically. I mean authentication when log in the server.

Tamer.

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:12:08 GMT

These ip are only examples and should be the ip address of your domain controllers.

And yes, this is for authenticate users that logon to linux, not only to access shares through samba.

Here is another method:

http://sadms.sourceforge.net/

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:22:51 GMT

These article may help:

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1563 Active Directory and Linux

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Bill Thorsteinson — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:29:13 GMT

Read the documentation on PAM. There are
pam modules which will authenticate against
Windows. If you are allowing logins
based on the authentication, you may
also want to install the module that
creates a home directory on first login.

If you only want access to file and printer
shares, then configure Samba to authenticate
against Windows. The Samba documentation
package (at least for Debian) includes a
book with details for a variety of
configurations.

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Andrea Rossi — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:10:46 GMT

try winbind, included in samba suite, compatible with pam.

Re: Linux Authentication From Windows??

Geoff Wild — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:16:37 GMT

If you are talking about integrating Linux with ADS (not just Samba) - then you need a third party app - one that come to mind is:

http://www.centrify.com/

Rgds...Geoff