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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Integrating unix with Active Directory Post 302176063 by nottrobin on Monday 17th of March 2008 08:47:21 AM
Old 03-17-2008
Integrating unix with Active Directory

Hey guys.

Maybe this should go in Security, I'm not sure...

At my work we make websites. Our development servers for these websites are run on a central Debian linux server which we can SSH into, which also contains all the files for these websites. These files are served to the entire network with Samba so windows can read them.

Every individual workstation runs Windows XP and all our windows users and email are managed by a Microsoft Exchange Server with Active Directory.

The problem is this: each user in the Microsoft Active Directory has to be duplicated into Samba, meaning that every new user needs to tell the technical team their username and password so we can add them in. This is of course less than ideal security.

So my question is: is there a way to integrate Unix and Samba with the Microsoft Active Directory so that every user will automatically have access to the Samba file share?

Also all our employees have a number of log-ins to individual sites - is there any way to interface this Microsoft Active Directory with perl scripts so that people can use their windows login for websites as well?

Ta,
Robin.

Last edited by nottrobin; 03-17-2008 at 10:14 AM.. Reason: typos
 

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createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME
createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer. SYNOPSIS
createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username] DESCRIPTION
createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories. OPTIONS
-s creates home directories for server home paths only (default). -c creates home directories for local home paths only. -b creates home directories for both server and local home paths. -a creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path. -l creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain. -n directoryDomainName creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path. -u username creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a, -l, and -n parameters when you use the -u parameter, -a is assumed. -i reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line. -h usage help. FILES
/usr/sbin/createhomedir location of tool CAVEATS
When using the -a option, search limits of various directory servers (such as Open Directory or Active Directory) can prevent all possible home directories from being created. In this case, you may need to specify the usernames explicitly. Mac OS X June 1, 2019 Mac OS X
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