[Infrastructures] user management (mixing afs,ldap,kerberos)

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 10/03/05 07:47 -0800, Carlson, Scott wrote:
> > My biggest stumbling block is determining the best way to integrate this
> > all into an existing Microsoft Active Directory framework. The University
> > has a deployed Microsoft AD, and so it would be silly to not use it. I've
> > managed to get some LDAP and Krb5 going against it, but my experimentation
> is
> > just beginning on that front. I believe it might boil down to adding
> > Services for Unix to it to extend the schema.
> 
> > Has anybody got any experience in this area? Can you replicate AD into an
> > OpenLDAP, or do you just work directly against AD? Do you put your system
> > users (http, oracle, etc) in AD or have some sort of hierarchy approach
> > where AD feeds OpenLDAP and only OpenLDAP knows about those things?
> 
> > Insight on this would be great.
> 
> 
> We're in the process of rolling out Vintela VAS (http://www.vintela.com) to
> our Unix environment (~~1500 active unix hosts) and have had good success at
> integrating the unix hosts into our active directory.  The vendor has

Has anyone played with Zenworks yet? Zenworks 7 looks nice, from the
press release.

Devdas Bhagat