I know this has been throught about already, but i want to see if I have the right train of thought here.
1) Linux client authentication Linux clients can authenticate against a master server using NIS as it stands. Doing a little research, I discovered that NIS can be tied directly into a LDAP-compatible protocol. Seems some universities use this trick to authenticate Linux machines to a Microsoft Active Directory server. (Don't ask me how or why...) I'm thinking that a NIS package can be modified or possibly an extra package (nis-ldap) be constructed that ties NIS directly into LDAP. This could provide LDAP authentication out of the box. 2) Windows client authentication. I know a lot of us would like to avoid this one, but if anyone wants the Ubuntu Server to truely succeed, it needs to be cross-platform compatible. Meaning it needs to reach the masses as well. Best way I can think of is to tie SAMBA directly into LDAP and have Samba act as a NT Primary Domain Controller. This is the only way I can think of that would work right now. Like my first suggestion, a samba-ldap-server package could work for this out of the box. Am I on the right track here? -- Joe Brouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
