On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:53:52AM +1000, GR Development wrote: > Hi slugs, > > 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???
identd expects that remote machine to be somewhat trustworthy; Windows allows any user to bind to sockets < 1024. identd doesn't expect this and if you use it it'll be easy ot get around. > > 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 Are you talking about <URL: http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/contivity/techspec.html> and <URL: http://www.nortelnetworks.com/products/01/asn/index.html> ? If so are you sure it's using Windows authentication and not its' own client software? Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
