Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:23 -0400 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Chris Edwards <cedwards@smartechcorp.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory Message-ID: <1214929824.3394.6.camel@tomcat.straycat.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <0d1f01c8d7c1$bcf79020$36e6b060$@net> References: <0d1f01c8d7c1$bcf79020$36e6b060$@net>
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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 -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org |
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