[389-users] Password lookup to AD

[Nathan Kinder]

On 07/13/2009 10:13 AM, Prashanth Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to have Fedora DS and have the password lookup 
> redirected to Active Directory? Some kind of proxy lookup. Take the 
> case of Mac OS X server and clients, they have Open Directory and the 
> password manager can authenticate against the Active Directory.
>
> Is it possible to have FDS without the password?
See the PAM Pass-through plug-in:

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Howto:PAM_Pass_Through
>
> So I would like to know, is it possible to achieve the same for FDS 
> using Samba, Winbind or NSS?? Is it possible that the FDS has all the 
> user permissions  and special groups but the authentication is turned 
> to AD. I know the passwords are hashed by Kerberos and hope we can 
> achieve this with some effort.
>
> A useful post by Microsoft
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.12.linux.aspx?pr=blog
>
> Thanks,
> Prashanth
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