I've never done this, but given a short google search, it seems possible. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Authenticating-Linux-Active-Directory.html
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247165.html?Open The above IBM redbook seems to have much of the information you would need. Since ADS does indeed use Kerberos as its underlying authentication, it should be possible to verify user names through the ADS domain. - Donald Tripp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------- HPC Systems Administrator High Performance Computing Center University of Hawai'i at Hilo 200 W. Kawili Street Hilo, Hawaii 96720 http://www.hpc.uhh.hawaii.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael H. Semcheski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:20 am Subject: Authentication with Active Directory To: Scientific Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > > My University uses Active Directory. I use Linux. > > I would like my SL server to use the active directory to determine > which usernames are valid for things like logins. > > I'm already using the University's Kerberos infrastructure to verify > passwords, but I have to make sure the user names are in /etc/passwd. > I'd like to not have to add the users to /etc/password. > > It would be even better if I could get group information from Active > Directory, but I can probably live without it. > > Anyone know if this is possible? Know what needs to go into the > setup, or know of a good howto? >
