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Date:      Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:12:58 -0400
From:      "Chris Edwards" <cedwards@smartechcorp.net>
To:        "'Tom McLaughlin'" <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD and Active Directory
Message-ID:  <078501c8e03b$8f2a8580$ad7f9080$@net>
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Well I figured at all out using Samba's WinBind and Kerberos.   I will post
the docs today or tomorrow, after I write them, to my blog at
http://www.ctdx.net for everyones viewing pleasure.


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Chris Edwards
Smartech Corp.
Div. of AirNet Group
http://www.airnetgroup.com
http://www.smartechcorp.net
cedwards@smartechcorp.net
P:  423-664-7678 x114
C:  423-593-6964
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tom McLaughlin
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:30 PM
To: Chris Edwards
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory


On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:20 -0400, Chris Edwards wrote: 
> I have been put in charge of creating a single sign-on mechanism for our
> Windows 2003 and FreeBSD servers.  We are wanting to use Active Directory
as
> our LDAP server.  I know of four different methods that could possibly
work.
> 
> 1. OpenLDAP
> 2. Radius
> 3. NIS
> 4. WinBind / Samba
> 
> Which is the most excepted/supported way to do this?  Several of the
severs
> are very old, 4+ years old.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> ---
> 
> Chris Edwards

You need to handle two things, user identification and user
authentication.  OpenLDAP (actually nss_ldap) will do the id part and
kerberos will do the authentication part.  Unfortunately my AD related
links for this are at work and I'm at home today.

tom

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