[sllug-members]: PAM - Authconfig

[gregorcy]

  Jason Clint wrote:
> Hi all I have been trying to setup a Ldap-AD sync and came across this
> site:
> 
> http://www.linux.com/articles/40983
> 
> Anyway I have got all the way down to Linux Integration section-5 and it
> says to "Run authconfig to perform the configuration of "Pluggable
> Authentication."  I do have authconfig on my distro which is Centos 5
> but I don't get what they are asking to do?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 


Hi Jason,

I have been working on this lately also.  I *think* the correct method to do this, since samba 3.0.20, is to use the 
winbind method to connect linux to Windows AD.  That article looks a little dated (2004).  This is what I have been using:

 > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory

Also this has been really helpful to get all the new idmap stuff working:
 > http://samba.dsmirror.nl/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html

Here are our notes in case you are interested:
 > http://www.che.utah.edu/resources/supportwiki/index.php/Samba_and_Active_Directory

If anyone has any comment on which is the better method winbind v ldap I would be interested in hearing it.



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