On May 12, 2012 7:13 AM, "Alecks Gates" <aleck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Stroller > <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On 11 May 2012, at 04:36, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> ... > >> I just want to know, what is your recommendation(s) to implement Active Directory authentication on Gentoo? > >> > >> I want to use AD not only for logins, but also for running daemons/services. > >> > >> *Ideally*, it would also allow me to manage my boxen using GPO, but I can live without that. > > > > > > Not sure about Active Directory, but I have used Samba's winbind to authenticate Windows domain users on a Linux box. > > > > It was remarkably easy and basically boiled down to adding a couple of lines to the service's /etc/pam.d file; when a user logged in for the first time a ~ would be created for them on the Linux box. > > > > Stroller. > > > > > > Perhaps you should check out "Calculate Directory Server?" I don't > think it's very popular outside of Russia but some of it looks rather > promising. >
At a glance, it looks more like a Domain Controller replacement instead of AD-based authentication for 'member servers'. However, it *does* look interesting; if it can provide the features my company needs, I can see us cutting down the number of Win2008 licenses :-) Rgds,
