RE: Microsoft ADS and OpenLDAP

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

>>>I am new to this group.
>>>We have a Microsoft 2000 Domain. We plan to use the same username password
>>>for accessing the mails off qmail, control access to the Internet, which
>>>goes through squid proxy and access the cvs repository.
>>OpenLDAP/PAM/NSS does all this very nicely.
>Can you give me some location which has some documentation on this?? The
>intention is to authenticate the users on the linux servers with their
>credeintials of the ADS.

I've been doing that all along ....

ftp://kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf

It covers PAM & NSS in relative depth, as well as other services
(although not qmail specifically). For AD you need the following -

>>It is probably easiest to just use AD as the DSA.  Grab the
>>MKSADExtPlugin and you should be able to pam_ldap and nss_ldap against
>>your AD server.  http://www.css-solutions.ca/ad4unix/