Unix Authentication With Win 2000 Active Directory

[Suren Selva]

Hello All,

Can HP-UX be configured to authenticate against a Windows 2000 active directory?

If so how can it be done? and can someone guide me to any online documents that deal with this issue?

I am a Unix admin with zero experience in Windows administration. Therefore I would appreciate all information despite how trivial it may seem. Thanks in advance to all replies.

Regards,
Suren Selva

[Dan Wanek · Accepted solution]

You can use LDAP-UX to authenticate to Active Directory. We use it with OpenLDAP, but the documentation states that it will work with Active Directory. It can be downloaded for free at software.hp.com.

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Dan Wanek

[Jim Marsden]

Windows 2000 comes with a network component "services for UNIX" - part of this is an NIS server.

If you configure the Windows 2000 system as an NIS server and the HP-UX system as an NIS client, you will be able to authenticate UNIX logins against the Windows Active Directory database.

Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/docs/servfornis.doc which descibes the NIS service on Windows. Info on setting up NIS on HP-UX can be found at www.docs.hp.com (search for NIS).