gregorcy <grego...@eng.utah.edu> 2011-10-29 10:52:
What's missing: OpenLDAP replication from AD? Is this possible? Is this needed? Since I want another machines (running Linux) to authenticate it will be a good idea only ONE machine get information from AD and everyone else authenticate natively on this Gentoo Machine.No this is not needed. If you are in a mixed environment (I think) it is much easier to just use AD as the one directory service and join all your linux boxes to it. As long as your idmap ranges match your users will have the same uid on all boxes.
I agree with this except for the need to "join all your linux boxes". AD is really just ldap+kerberos. Most of the time you don't need the headache of kerberos and can just use the ldap component. Modern AD schemas include all the of necessary attributes support for having Linux clients talk to it directly for uid/gid mapping, which is much nicer since it avoids the complexity of any samba requirements when you don't need them (eg: mail, web, etc.).
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