From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 12:22:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3304B37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E09543E3B for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8TJMJOL047941; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:22:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8TJMDYj047940; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:22:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:22:13 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba Auth. Message-ID: <20020929192213.GA47196@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Brian McCann , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000001c267cf$864fc0a0$1500a8c0@dogbert> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c267cf$864fc0a0$1500a8c0@dogbert> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-13.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:47:28AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > Somewhat off topic, but somewhat related. I would like to be able to > have ONE place for ALL my accounts, both NT AND BSD. The reason for > this is I am setting up a mail server on a BSD box, but I don't want my > users to have to remember 2 different passwords. I know Samba can do > Windows file/print sharing, but can I use it like NIS, in the aspect of > using it to authenticate to my Win2k AD or WinNT user db? Active Directory is Microsoft's name for their package of a bunch of pretty well known Unix technologies that they've bundled together. http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/1997-12/windows.html http://www.aplawrence.com/Books/unixwin2kint.html Take a look at the following ports: net/openldap net/openldap2 security/pam_ldap or anything turned up by 'make search name=ldap' in /usr/ports Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message