Re: how does it work?

[adam@morrison-ind.com]

>I've administrated a Windows 2000 Active Directory for a view month.
>Now I've changed to another company which wants to use a
>linux - based - directoryservice.  
>I've read something about openldap. Now I have a question:
>If I want to use an openldap - server only for collecting some data -
>such as username, computername, etc 
>- have the users to logon to the server every time they login into their 
>system? 

Eh? No.  See the integration section of the OpenLDAP FAQ and
ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf with emphasis on PAM and NSS.