Kedar Patankar wrote:
> Does anyone here know how to get an NT client to authenticate its users
> against an OpenLDAP server?
Not possible with NT 3.5 and 4.0 Do not know about WinDOS 2000.
> One mechanism I can think of is to make it point to a samba box as PDC,
> and then make that samba box to verify the authentication credentials
> against an OpenLDAP server (using password_program or some such directive
> in smb.conf).
The problem is NT does not do PAM authentication. It knows of only two
types of authentication - users local to the machine and users listed in
the PDC. You workaround using samba to get around the proble is correct.
I am not sure about WinDOS 2000 because (a) the marketoids claim that
Active Directory etc. are a giant leap forward and (b) I've never
bothered to install and try it out.
Thaths
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