I would not suggest winbind, as winbind's cache is not so consistent, again you have to use rid or ldap backend, to have a good scalable backend
though i guess , we have tdb backend also, but the winbind procedure, is to join the RHEL system on which you want to run ftp server is pretty straight forward. Since i am not aware of which distribution you have, but if you are using fedora, rhel5, centos or some thing like that then run 1. authconfig-tui (text mode) 2. specify Winbind as your User and authentication 3. Specify REALM (which is DOMAIN in CAPS), AD server ip address and AD server's hostname, 4. Run command "net ads join -U administrator" sorry for small howto, but if you go through samba.org , you should find a good documentation on this, and also it is pretty straight forward. if you are using SUSE, then you have nice gui tools , not sure what's the name, but it's pretty straight forward. Regards Niranjan --- On Mon, 7/14/08, G.David Manohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: G.David Manohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [TwinCLinG] VSFTPD+Open LDAP To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 14, 2008, 7:17 PM Hi Niranjan, I am working on similar lines... could you please update me w.r.t winbind also... As the AD users are already created, I would not be able to do any changes to those accounts... Regards, David --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com, Ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..> wrote: > > Hi David, > > I want to know, if you want , How to configure Vsftpd to authenticate using AD users / Or OpenLDAP, > > Can you clarify more. > > Configuring vsftpd with OpenLDAP , is configuring the vsftpd system to authenticate to LDAP server, and nothing to do with vsftpd, as vsftp will call pam > and appropriate LDAP libararies will be called. > > So configure an LDAP Server, using OpenLDAP, You will find a lot of howto's on that in google. > > Here is a few > http://kbase. redhat.com/ faq/FAQ_91_ 11441.shtm > > So once system is configured to authenticate OpenLDAP, vsftpd can use PAM to get LDAP user. > > > If you want Vsftpd to authenticate using AD user. For that, vsftpd server should authenticate to AD using LDAP and kerberos (is one option) or you use Winbind as another option. Using LDAP and kerberos to Authenticate to Windows AD is better option. > > Regards > Niranjan > > --- On Fri, 7/11/08, G.David Manohar <david_manohar@ ...> wrote: > From: G.David Manohar <david_manohar@ ...> > Subject: [TwinCLinG] VSFTPD+Open LDAP > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com > Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 11:36 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Can someone please help me configuring VSFTPD with OPEN-LDAP to access > > active directory. > > > > Thanks in advance... > > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
