On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, GR Development wrote: > We are a group of IT students at Coffs Harbour Education Campus and we are > having problems with our project. If anyone knows how to pass a Windows > username to a linux system we would greatly appreciate it as we are > completely stuck. We have tried using identd but we are not getting the > results we needed. Maybe we are doing something wrong??? > > For our project we have to replace CHEC's Nortel Contivity Switch and ASN > Router, which they use to connect a number of different users to the > internet via three pipes, with a Linux System. They are connected to a > certain pipe depending on the users context (which can be gained from the > username). User IP addresses need to be changed or masqueraded to a range > suitable for the appropriate internet connection.
Look into an LDAP solution and have the linux/windows boxes in the same LDAP domain? See if you can setup SAMBA on the Linux box, and have your Windows boxes authenticate against the SAMBA solution based on your username? I don't know if there's a WindoZe based LDAP solution which is compatible, but it could be worth looking into. Samba should almost certainly be able to do something like what you want. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
