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Single sign on
Name: digitallyskilled Date: July 8, 2004 at 06:55:38 Pacific OS: XP, 2KPRO, 2KSRVR CPU/Ram: P4/ 256
Comment:
Does anyone have any ideas on how to authenticate novell and linux with an windows 2003 server.
I want to use linux as a ftp server but use the username and password from windows
i want to use linux as a print and application server again i want to use the username and password from windows.
Name: foccer Date: July 25, 2004 at 21:22:50 Pacific
Reply:
It's probably much easier to authenticate them both against Novell's edriectory. Linux has PAM authentication modules that will happily talk to any LDAP directory and authenticating to Windows is Netware's specialty. Grab a demo of Netware 6.5 and read up on DirXML if you want to go extreme. This can create a two-way relationship between AD and edirectory so that user accounts, groups and passwords are synchronised between both.
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