> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >I was searching around for some clues on trying to solve >the single most mind-bending detail of putting together >a linux-based NAS box - the holy grail, if you will - SPA >(Single Point of Authentication).
I think the pieces are finally available to accomplish this but I'm not sure anyone has packaged them together yet. The unix side has been around for a while with the tools from http://www.padl.com/projects.html for native ldap nss and pam integration. I think Mandrake 8.1 includes this as an option (at least in expert mode install) out of the box. The current samba release (2.2.3, not what comes with SMEserver) claims to support LDAP as a backend for user authentication too. So, it should be a matter of including both the posixAccount and sambaAccount objectclasses in the LDAP schema. I think the smbpasswd program will maintain the LDAP database if it is compiled with LDAP support, so that part might not need any extra code to work with SMEserver (assuming something already runs the smbpasswd program as part of user configuration. Then we need a mail setup like http://scalemail.sourceforge.net/ where the user's maildrop server is also looked up in LDAP during delivery. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
