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Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD?
From: Steve Olive <steve () bathurstcomputers com au>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:50:09 +1000
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:44:03 pm Dummy cerberus wrote:
Hello, First of all, thank you very much for your help wit my question about GPOs and so on... your answers helped me a lot... Now I have the following question: I have found that my organization has several kind of OS installed on computers... most of them are W2K/W2K3 integrated within a W2K domain... Since admins have to remember lots of accounts/passwords for the W2K* servers, and the others with Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, etc... I have found that most of the passwords are too simple, and repeated all over the non-W2K* systems... I have tried with a password manager, but some times we lost a valuable time searching for the strong password for one system at the password manager software... Is there anyway to integrate the OS accounts of UNIX-like sysetms with an AD? Best regards
Microsoft AD uses Kerberos (v5) authentication and *nix systems can be configured to use Kerberos as an authentication scheme. The ActiveDirectoryHowto goes into more detail: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryHowto -- Regards, Steve Bathurst Computer Solutions URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au e-mail: steve () bathurstcomputers com au Mobile: 0407 224 251 .... _ ... (0)> ... / / \ .. / / . ) .. V_/_ Linux Powered! Registered Linux User #355382 ********************************************* "If you read the same things as others and say the same things they say, then you're perceived as intelligent. I'm a bit more independent and radical and consider intelligence the ability to think about matters on your own and ask a lot of skeptical questions to get at the real truth, not just what you're told it is." Apple's Inventor - Steve Wozniak 2006 *********************************************
Current thread:
- Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Dummy cerberus (Aug 29)
- RE: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Roger A. Grimes (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Serguei A. Mokhov (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Daniel Miessler (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Nikhil Wagholikar (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Steve Olive (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Ali, Saqib (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? gjgowey (Aug 30)
- RE: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? John Hammond (Aug 30)
- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Ivan . (Aug 30)
- RE: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? liran (Aug 31)
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- Re: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? shiva (Aug 30)
- RE: Unix/Linux accounts integrated within AD? Smithers Jarrod (Aug 31)