[ILUG] OpenLDAP on Linux and Windows Accounts

[Dave O Connor]

Robert Sweetnam said on Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:06:08PM +0100:
> Hi All,
> 
> Having installed SuSE Linux enterprise 9 along with Novell's Nterprise 
> services from the Novell evaluation kit, I have a bit of a query regarding 
> LDAP.
> Since I want to integrate this server into a Windows LAN for testing, I was 
> wondering if it is possible using OpenLDAP to replicate the Windows 2000 
> domain accounts into the LDAP directory? Since the LAN is primarily windows, 
> I would like to give some users access to the Linux box and ideally they 
> should be able to log on to the server using the same username and password. 
> the whole idea being that if their account password changed on doze it would 
> shortly be replicated to OpenLDAP.
> 
You're probably just better off using pam_smb. If all you're insterested in is
authentication.

	- DoC