Well well well. After about a week or so of digging through archives and asking questions and reading way too many documents I'm still not where I want to be. But maybe someone out there may be able to verify my thought process and add on to it.
I have different flavors of unix in a test lab from HP, AIX, IRIX and especially solaris 2.6, 7 and 8. And what I want to do is to be able to centrally manage user login names and passwords. My first thought being the pluthra of windows servers and since we have the domain all nice and pertty that all the user info from Active Directory could be used to authenticate unix logins as well.
So with what I know Unix uses PAM to authenticate it's users and to control access. And there are open source models that link pam and ldap together called pam_ldap
all I need is the shared object to put in the security directory, adjust the login file and BAM I'm on my way.
I've found that padl.com and at some obscure site that seems to be more for solaris 7. If you know of any more sources where I can find pam_ldap or even better, binaries that already work.
The problems I've run into so far is that on solaris 7 I can't make anything compile fully and the workshop version of cc had a temporary license that expired. on 2.6 I didn't find the necessary ldap libraries in /usr/lib
I know that was a lot to go over but I know that this is possible since LDAP is opensource. Or if you have any other workarounds that lets Unix Authenticate through a Windows server then by all means tell me.
Thanks for any thoughts or input you may have.
Martin I don't suffer from insanity.
I enjoy every minute of it.
I have different flavors of unix in a test lab from HP, AIX, IRIX and especially solaris 2.6, 7 and 8. And what I want to do is to be able to centrally manage user login names and passwords. My first thought being the pluthra of windows servers and since we have the domain all nice and pertty that all the user info from Active Directory could be used to authenticate unix logins as well.
So with what I know Unix uses PAM to authenticate it's users and to control access. And there are open source models that link pam and ldap together called pam_ldap
all I need is the shared object to put in the security directory, adjust the login file and BAM I'm on my way.
I've found that padl.com and at some obscure site that seems to be more for solaris 7. If you know of any more sources where I can find pam_ldap or even better, binaries that already work.
The problems I've run into so far is that on solaris 7 I can't make anything compile fully and the workshop version of cc had a temporary license that expired. on 2.6 I didn't find the necessary ldap libraries in /usr/lib
I know that was a lot to go over but I know that this is possible since LDAP is opensource. Or if you have any other workarounds that lets Unix Authenticate through a Windows server then by all means tell me.
Thanks for any thoughts or input you may have.
Martin I don't suffer from insanity.
I enjoy every minute of it.