[luau] single login/authentication?

[Zachary Ortogero]

Well if your windows clients are win2k then why not take a 
look at kerberos? Last time I checked there was some 
discussion about windows clients logging into a kerberos 
realm hosted on linux machines.

Teamed up with LDAP, SASL, and AFS you could put together a 
pretty nice system :-) but you'd have to do some extra 
research into the 'extensions' that Microsoft utilizes in 
their implementation of Kerberos and whether it's 
compatible with the MIT Kerberos v5 software.

Something to look at...

> Is it possible on a LAN with Linux, Irix, and Windows 
clients for users to have
> access to all clients by using the same 
username/password, but without redundancy?
> So to add a new user, I would go to one server and make 
the switch and it would
> then be usable on all clients. 
> 
> NIS, LDAP, and using samba as a PDC have all come up as 
possibilities in my
> googling, but the discussions I've found don't really 
address my concrete concerns.
> NIS or LDAP seem like possibilities for unix-only 
networks, and samba looks
> good for a bunch of windows clients and a linux server. 
But all in one network?
> 
> 
> So I'm punting and tossing the question to you guys. 
Should I pursue this further,
> and if so, which of these (or some other acronym) is most 
likely to achieve
> my goal?
> 
> If I am understanding, the NIS approach (server gives 
updated passwd files to
> clients) is different from the PDC/samba approach (server 
provides authentication
> service directly). (LDAP I don't understand at all.) 
> 
> These don't seem very compatible. I guess you could glue 
them together by having
> the samba PDC use NIS to get its user info as if it were 
a unix client. Right?
> Or you might need a tool (or a person) to do some 
conversion to keep the master
> unix user data and the pdc user data in sync as people 
change their passwords,
> users are added and deleted, etc.
> 
> Detective Dave
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