Hi!
Peter Roots wrote: > I see, from the documentation, I can use data stored in ldap to authenticate > windows clients. Most of my machines are linux - can they authenticate via > ebox or must this be set up separately? > Ebox is mostly a frontend, so your question is that openldap (used by ebox) is capable of authenticating linux workstations. If I'm OK, take a look at libpam_ldap and libnss_ldap. For example: http://edin.no-ip.com/content/ldap-samba-pdc-pamnss-debian-lenny-howto is a good start. > Can the shares, set up by ebox, be served to linux machines by nfs rather > than > samba using ebox or must I manually export them? > No. NFS is currently not part of eBox as far as I know. Unfortunately I cannot answer the rest, I don't use those part of ebox yet. > If I set up http to authorize and filter and my windows or linux boxes > authenticate via ebox, will this cover http access or do they get asked to > authenticate explicitly for http access? I hope they are not separately asked > but the documentation did not make it clear what happens. > > If I understood the documentation correctly I assume I could define a group > with any internet access (filtered http content if required) and another with > just, for example, access to pop3/smtp only and one with no access at all to > the wide and worrysome world in any shape or form. Is this a correct > interpretation? - I do hope so. > > Lastly, could I start off with a gateway box (dns, dhcp, http proxy, ldap > etc) > so users could safely access the net and authenticate. Later add another > ebox > to do groupware or web server perhaps. Could I, using ebox, also have a > second ldap server and sync it to the original one so users could still > authenticate on the network even if we lost the gateway temporarily? > > Many thanks for you help - from what I have read, so far, ebox looks like it > might be just the thing I need but I'm not yet sure Peter Molnar _______________________________________________ ebox-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ebox-platform.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
