Re: [CentOS] LDAP for central authentication?

2009-12-03 Thread Gary L. Greene, Jr.
On Wednesday 02 December 2009 6:55:15 pm Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have the following on a network: 1) RHEL 5.0 Server acting as NIS and Samba domain controller 2) CentOS 5.x machines on NIS network 3) Win XP machines on Samba domain When I create an account for someone, I need to

Re: [CentOS] LDAP for central authentication?

2009-12-03 Thread Alan McKay
In your case, you should look at samba with the LDAP backend. This will allow all data to be in LDAP for the non-Windows boxes, and the Windows clients would treat it as an NT4 styled domain. OK, I'm just really new at Centos-DS, but it looks to me like it will simplify this task for you. I

[CentOS] LDAP for central authentication?

2009-12-02 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have the following on a network: 1) RHEL 5.0 Server acting as NIS and Samba domain controller 2) CentOS 5.x machines on NIS network 3) Win XP machines on Samba domain When I create an account for someone, I need to first type adduser new_person -d /home/new_person then passwd new_person,