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[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Matt Oquist wrote:

> I consult for some schools and I work for a school district.
>
> I hesitated to write this as a reply to the other question, but now
> you've asked the question to which I REALLY have an answer.
>
> And the answer is... single sign on and MS Active Directory.
>
> We want to be able to join a Linux box (K12LTSP server, usually) to an
> AD network and have home directories automagically mounted correctly
> (pam_mount needs to be enhanced to query the AD server, etc.), and we
> want to be able to configure Samba/LDAP easily for non-AD
> environments.
>
> Our desired state of affairs is one username/password/homedir per
> person. If there's an AD server in place, we should be able to add the
> K12LTSP server to the AD domain and use the Windows home directories.
> If it's a new network, we should be able to create a new Samba/LDAP
> domain (answering a bare minimum of questions, with some "advanced"
> configuration options available) and be able to join Windows
> workstations to it with no hassles.

Is any work going on here that you know of?

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