Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD?

[Steve Olive <steve () bathurstcomputers com au>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:44:03 pm Dummy cerberus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, thank you very much for your help wit my question about
> GPOs and so on... your answers helped me a lot...
>
> Now I have the following question: I have found that my organization
> has several kind of OS installed on computers... most of them are
> W2K/W2K3 integrated within a W2K domain...
>
> Since admins have to remember lots of accounts/passwords for the W2K*
> servers, and the others with Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, etc... I have
> found that most of the passwords are too simple, and repeated all over
> the non-W2K* systems...
>
> I have tried with a password manager, but some times we lost a
> valuable time searching for the strong password for one system at the
> password manager software...
>
> Is there anyway to integrate the OS accounts of UNIX-like sysetms with an
> AD?
>
> Best regards

Microsoft AD uses Kerberos (v5) authentication and *nix systems can be 
configured to use Kerberos as an authentication scheme. The 
ActiveDirectoryHowto goes into more detail:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryHowto

-- 
Regards,

Steve
Bathurst Computer Solutions
URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au
e-mail: steve () bathurstcomputers com au
Mobile: 0407 224 251
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