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Re: OpenLDAP, user authentication from Windows based client
Pravin Joshi wrote:
> Dear Jim,
...
> My requirement is similar. I have OpenLDAP under SunOS and I wish to
> authenticate the user from windows based client. I tried to download
> mozilla. I couldn't do it. :(
>
> Could you please tell me what method did you adopt? steps please. Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Pravin Joshi
It is still in the works I'm afraid. Previously I used a combination of
pGINA and instructions from an article on mandrake-secure:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/ldap-auth.php
Problem there was that the plugin for pGINA is designed for samba.schema
and the article describes setting up nis.schema. The end result is that
the groups are not retrieved by the plugin which basically means that
only Guest access is possible. Frankly I never understood why anyone
would want to use pGINA if they were just going to use samba anyway. I
mean, wouldn't it be just as easy (or perhaps easier) to use the winbind
daemon that comes with Samba instead of pGINA?
It might be OK to use samba.schema but there are no good/up-to-date
instructions that I know of for setting up the db and I still need to
authenticate my Linux clients. The idea of having a different db for
each type of client also seems wasteful and unnecessarily complex.