Linux Authentication From Windows??

[Tamer Shaalan]

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.

[Ivan Ferreira]

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.

[Tamer Shaalan]

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.

[Ivan Ferreira]

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/

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

These article may help:

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

[Bill Thorsteinson]

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.

[Andrea Rossi]

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

[Geoff Wild]

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