To elaborate the question: Is it possible to have a Pass-Through
authentication system as with OpenLDAP?

About Pass-through Authentication
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/security.html#Pass-Through%20authenticat
ion

Another post by Microsoft: I am hoping this setting can help me read the
user passwords to authenticate against.
http://www.advproxy.net/ldapads.html

Prashanth



On 7/13/09 1:13 PM, "Prashanth Sundaram" <psunda...@wgen.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to have Fedora DS and have the password lookup redirected to
> Active Directory? Some kind of proxy lookup. Take the case of Mac OS X server
> and clients, they have Open Directory and the password manager can
> authenticate against the Active Directory.
> 
> Is it possible to have FDS without the password?
> 
> So I would like to know, is it possible to achieve the same for FDS using
> Samba, Winbind or NSS?? Is it possible that the FDS has all the user
> permissions  and special groups but the authentication is turned to AD. I know
> the passwords are hashed by Kerberos and hope we can achieve this with some
> effort.
> 
> A useful post by Microsoft
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.12.linux.aspx?pr=blog
> 
> Thanks,
> Prashanth

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