I just thought it was an interesting OSS project and thought i'd share
with every one.



On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Keith Stokes <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's kind of what I thought so I lost interest.  Only syncing accounts and
> passwords is useful but not quite useful enough.
> A quick look at the website for Likewise Open shows it seems to do a lot
> more than when I looked at it.  I'll have to play with it again.  Thanks for
> the update.
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 8:15 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
> Yes, that’s the whole point behind LikeWise, Centrify, etc. If you can’t do
> that then something was very wrong. It would be like not being able to take
> a left turn in a new car you just bought.. ;-)
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] on Behalf
> Of Keith Stokes
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] LikeWise - Was: RE: Seen this? Run this?
>
> It's been a long time since I looked at it but I seem to remember that I
> couldn't pull group membership from AD; only username and password.
>
> You are saying at this point I should be able to have a www group within my
> AD, then when logging into my web server I can have the AD-group members
> modify files owned by www on the web server?
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
> You should have been able to assign all group perms via AD after you
> LikeWise. We are a Centrify vendor, and Centrify works in a similar way
> to LikeWise (although Centrify doesn't require AD schema updates).
>
> Do you mean group membership when you say "assign permissions"? Or are
> you talking about actual file-level permissions? (Which you would set
> and manage via groups anyway.)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Keith Stokes
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 6:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Seen this? Run this?
>
> I played with the free/simple version awhile back and it worked just
> fine.  I still had to assign permissions within Linux but for basic
> authentication and password sync it works fine.
>
> Brad Bendily wrote:
>
> Ran across this a few days ago, anyone ever used it?
>
>
>
> http://www.likewise.com/community/index.php/download/
>
>
>
> "Likewise Open integrates Linux, UNIX, and Mac computers in Microsoft
>
> Active Directory."
>
>
>
> Apparently it's not the same as just using a PAM.
>
>
>
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