Re: Windows / Linux password interplay

Charles Tryon wrote:
Robert Harris wrote:
Charles Tryon wrote:
Robert Harris wrote:
kenbo wrote:
I have a Windows Vista machine that I am integrating into an existing
Linux Lab. Is there an easy
way to take a Linux passwd file and set up the Windows machines to
recognize those same
users?

It's a small lab (17 machines), so I am looking for an easy and simple
solution, if possible.

thanks,
kenny
If you have an existing Linux network, you already need more than a
passwd file to recognise (i.e. authenticate and authorize) your users
to the network. So, if you haven't done so already, set yourself up an
LDAP server so that your network can share user logins, groups and
whatever else you might want to share over the network.

If you want Windows machines to share the same logins, you also need a
package which on my (Debian) system is called smbldap-tools which
provides tools to keep Linux and Samba accounts in sync.

Robert
Do you have any good pointers to how to do this, especially the Windows
part? I've sort of stumbled through getting the username and password
setup of LDAP on Linux, but not on the Samba or Windows side. I've
already set up Samba as a Domain controller, but I'd love to have my
passwords centrally managed.

One VERY neat trick is that, if you have the user's home directory
defined in the domain controller, if they use Cygwin to create a command
line shell, the domain automatically uses that for the user's Cygwin
home directory.

(Samba will actually do a reasonable job of managing the Linux passwords
of users, but that's with a standard flat password/shadow file, not with
any kind of NIS/LDAP server.)

One other question I've already posted in another thread (but not seen
an answer yet) is how you inform the Linux automounter where to find the
NFS server with the user's home directory. NIS does this very nicely,
but I'm trying to get away from NIS. (Need to integrate with Active
Directory in a mixed environment.)


The best tutorial I have come across is "OpenLDAP Everywhere Revisited"
at: <http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8119>

The software you will probably use to keep Linux and Samba passwords
etc. in step is from: <http://www.padl.com/Contents/OpenSourceSoftware.html>

Most Linux distributions support it.

I know nothing about automounting, I'm afraid!

Robert

Thanks! I'd seen that page before but hadn't gone all the way through
it. It looks like it should have the information necessary to set up my
home directories, as well as tying into my Samba Windows domain.


Hummm... I finally got a chance to look at that page and try out some of the automount setup, and unfortunately, it seems to suffer the same problem as all the other OpenLDAP tutorials I've seen out there -- they all seem to be either incomplete, out of date or just plain inaccurate. I have seen several examples of how to set up home directories and the automounter, but they all seem to specify different object types. The difficulty is that, at least on Fedora, it looks like the schema has changed (several times?) and it's impossible for me to figure out what classes the automounter is looking for. If I try to use the classes from one example, I get errors on the insertion (missing or incorrect attributes). If I use another HOWTO example, I can insert the classes, but the automounter barfs when it can't find the /home object it is looking for..... :-(

Is there a way to tell what exact queries the automounter is performing on the LDAP server?

--
Chuck Tryon


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