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Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

nash11 — Tue, 30 May 2006 06:08:31 GMT

hay anyone here ever been able to get Linux to Authenticate Linux to Windows Active Directory? Here at work we have a large Domain running Windows Active Directory and I would like to see if I can Authenticate users to it. what I want is to login the linux server via the authentication of the windows AD . I know this can be done in Mac OS X, and a google search yeilded some results for linux. the setup is pretty complicated though and there are multiple programs I think I need to run, but not really sure what does what.

anyone have any experience with this? thx in advance.

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 30 May 2006 06:42:13 GMT

Shalom,

We've done this in the lab.

http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-February/100724.html

http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/2318244&tid=102&tid=101&tid=100

There are a couple of ways to do it.

The last link shows using LDAP and Samba to handle the integration.

Its complex, but the payoff is high.

SEP

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 30 May 2006 09:12:40 GMT

This is not too complicated and you only need to do some samba configurations and PAM modifications.

Some Linux distro like Red Hat provides the:

authconfig

Command that allows you to configure authentication using AD.

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

Andrea Rossi — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:26:08 GMT

the easier way is to use winbind pam module.
(man winbind)

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

nash11 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:56:37 GMT

Thx all suggestions ,

I have search through from the web , there are some methods could do the authentication the linux with windows active directory , it includes LDAP , Pam.d , Winbind , Samba , NIS etc , it is very confused , all these method seems have relationship but not exactly the same architecture , can anyone advise what is the different of these methods ? which one of them is better ? thx

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:21:07 GMT

To authenticate with Windows AD, you only need to read about SAMBA.

The other methods are for other type of authentication based on directory servers.

Windows Active Directory is LDAP based + Kerberos based, but you don't have to worry about this, you only need to configure SAMBA correctly.

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

nash11 — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:25:27 GMT

thx reply ,

I am trying to setup the samba in linux side , can advise what I need to do at windows ( AD sever ) side ? do I need to export some directory and release any permission for linux client to login ? thx.

Re: Authenticating Linux to Active Directory

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:44:48 GMT

You don't have to do anything at the windows side.