Re: Ldap svr design question [was Re: domain auth

2003-01-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 01:05, Beast wrote: > At 11:10 AM 1/3/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >If you build a single master system and replicate to the other three > >offices, you'll be able to authenticate in the event of a link failure, > >but you won't be able to modify the directory (change passwords).

Re: Ldap svr design question [was Re: domain auth

2003-01-03 Thread Beast
At 11:10 AM 1/3/2003 -0800, you wrote: >On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 10:39, Beast wrote: >> Server design: >> all sites are connected using leased line, so problem in links should not >> interupt user in one site to authenticate(or modify their password) to >> their own ldap server, but all servers in all

Re: Ldap svr design question [was Re: domain auth

2003-01-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 10:39, Beast wrote: > Server design: > all sites are connected using leased line, so problem in links should not > interupt user in one site to authenticate(or modify their password) to > their own ldap server, but all servers in all sites should be synch. > > What is the bes

Ldap svr design question [was Re: domain auth

2003-01-03 Thread Beast
At 10:39 PM 12/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >> ldap = is it proven techology for this purpose? >> > > LDAP is a general purpose thing now, you can really put anything in >LDAP. LDAP from companies such as Sun (Sun ONE Directory Server) have >extra plugins and if you don't mind using one of th

Re: domain auth

2002-12-24 Thread Jeff Bearer
Check this out, it has an excellent howto and some needed tools for nt integration. http://samba.idealx.org/ I wish I found it before I spent months putting together our single signon solution. I'm currently contributing to their webmin module for ldap user management. On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 05:

Re: domain auth

2002-12-21 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 21-Dec-2002/13:10 +, Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2. Currently we have MS Exchange installed, user was using mapi which give >good full list of recipient. i think we can achieve it using ldap, even >user have to search first. exchange were made it simple and make user very >lazy to type

Re: domain auth

2002-12-21 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello ! > 1. What is 'standart' file sharing? nfs, smb/samba or any other? "Standart" interesting terminology, depends, NFS is useful to what we call mount a file system partition onto another machine, so you could simple export the entire /home where all the user home directories may exi

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Beast
At 10:39 PM 12/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >> ldap = is it proven techology for this purpose? >> > > LDAP is a general purpose thing now, you can really put anything in >LDAP. LDAP from companies such as Sun (Sun ONE Directory Server) have >extra plugins and if you don't mind using one of thos

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello ! On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 04:06, Beast wrote: > Currently what im thinking was nis, samba and ldap (using openldap) > nis = seem mature, is it worth in today environment? NIS/NIS+ is a dying model, soon you will see Sun even doing LDAP instead of NIS/NIS+ that is the way to go today.

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Beast
At 08:49 PM 12/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Depends on what you want to be doing, I mean that there is LDAP >authentication that would be useful for certain/most tasks, using Samba >and LDAP would be a wonderful way to do some things like NT >Authentication. > >De facto would be /etc/passwd style but

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Aly Dharshi
Depends on what you want to be doing, I mean that there is LDAP authentication that would be useful for certain/most tasks, using Samba and LDAP would be a wonderful way to do some things like NT Authentication. De facto would be /etc/passwd style but since you want to be central in account and re

domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Beast
Hi all, recently we're trying moving from window nt network to linux. we have arround 800-1000 pc client. 1. what are my options to replace ntdomain authentiation? 2. what is de facto standard to maintain account in *nix world? TIA. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT