[sllug-members]: LDAP and Windows

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Monday 04 September 2006 09:28pm, Adam Barrett wrote:
> I just starting looking into maintaining my users globally on my
> network, and I was wondering, LDAP looks to be the best way to handle
> users and logins for the whole, network, will it also support my
> windows logins? Pros and cons?

Install pGina [ http://www.pgina.org/ ] on your Windows boxes.  It's a GPL 
(IIRC) open source replacement gina for Windows (works with everything from 
Win95 - XP & Server 2003).  The "gina" is the equivalent of a display 
manager's greeter for UNIX.  The gina does the authentication.  pGina uses 
the exact same LDAP configuration that you use for UNIX/Linux/BSD systems for 
authentication.  You don't have to change anything in your LDAP setup.

We used pGina around here for a long time and it worked great (we do have to 
keep a couple of Windows boxes around for testing purposes and so forth).  
For nearly 2 years now, though, we've been Kerberized, so we don't use pGina 
much, anymore.

It works great.  I recommend it to my students all the time and I get emails 
thanking me for it after they have tried it out.
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]

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