Pretty please? Need LDAP/Windows integration help

[Ian Petersen]

You should go buy "Linux Networking Cookbook" by Carla Shroder,
published by O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-10248-8.  It's a well-written book
that I bought on the strength of a Slashdot book review.  It includes
several chapters about OpenLDAP, Windows-Linux integration, and single
sign-on.  It's written in a problem-solution-implementation style, so
you can surf page headers looking for something that solves your
particular problem and then follow the steps to implement the
proffered solution.  The author includes instructions for Debian and
Fedora, but the steps are usually clear enough that you should be able
to apply them to just about any distribution.

To answer your question directly, the answer from the book is to put
the accounts on the Windows machines and have Linux authenticate
against it.  There's a chapter or two that will teach you how to
install OpenLDAP on the Linux boxes and configure PAM to use it to
authenticate users against the Windows ActiveDirectory.  There are
also tidbits about how to make home directories on the fly so that you
don't have to pre-configure users' accounts on the Linux machines
before they can sign in.

Ian

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