Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-27 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Tim Cutts wrote: > That's very similar to what we're doing. We're using Sun Directory > Server, because there's an additional piece of software for that (whose > name escapes me) which can nicely handle data synchronisation between > SDS and AD. > Is that SDS the same one that used to be Netscap

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-24 Thread Tim Cutts
On 24 Oct 2008, at 12:38 am, Chris Samuel wrote: - "Tim Cutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you just want to authenticate against AD, you don't need anything commercial at all. You can just configure PAM on your Linux boxes to authenticate against AD, and configure your nsswitch.conf t

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Samuel
- "Tim Cutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you just want to authenticate against AD, you don't need anything > commercial at all. You can just configure PAM on your Linux boxes to > authenticate against AD, and configure your nsswitch.conf to obtain > its information from AD's LDAP se

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Prentice Bisbal
John Hearns wrote: > I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. > If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using > Active Directory > with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was > quite good. > Can anyone remind me please? You're probab

RE: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Cunningham, Dave
pretty interesting. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:15 AM To: John Hearns Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, John Hearns

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, John Hearns wrote: I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using Active Directory with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was quite good. Can anyone remind me please? J

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Cutts
On 23 Oct 2008, at 4:59 pm, John Hearns wrote: I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using Active Directory with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was quite good. Can anyone remind

Re: [Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread Peter St. John
John, This article http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1563 is aged (2002) by strikes me as a good place to start, it just seems well organized and has at least a few nice points. This article http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9227285361.html is recent (2008) but short, but mentions some products

[Beowulf] Active directory with Linux

2008-10-23 Thread John Hearns
I have to confess my Google skills have failed me. If I'm not wrong, there was a recent discussion in these parts re. using Active Directory with Linux. I think there was a commercial product mentioned, which was quite good. Can anyone remind me please? John Hearns