using network password authentication.

[Travis Fraser]

http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/linux/PDC-Authentication-HOWTO.html

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:23, Don wrote:
> I have an opportunity to set up a linux box in our office so I installed
> FC1 with no incidents.... (Except I can't get printing to work
> properly... see previous posting)
> 
> I want to create a couple of user ids for myself and some other people
> that may need to work on it. We already have userid/passwords to log on
> to our windows machines, and I thought it would be very cool if I could
> set up thus FC1 box so password checking would be done against the
> network/domain.
> 
> But, I don't know how to do that.
> 
> Example:
> I log on to my windows machine as:
>    username: itsme
>    password: sesame
>    domain:   company
> 
> So, on FC1 I created user "itsme", the machine domain is "company", but
> I want the password to authenticate against the rest of the network (am
> I using the right terminology?) so that when I change my network
> password, it applies to FC1 as well.
> 
> Any suggestions? Even questions I need to ask our network guy (who say
> his first Linux box today after I did the install etc) :-)
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Don
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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