AD Authentication?

[Ted Roche]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Kenny Lussier <klussier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  What if I can touch the AD servers? Or, at least, I sit next to the
>>  guy that can touch the AD servers? Are there other options?
> 
>   SFU (Services For Unix, "free", from Microsoft) aims to make Windows
> speak Unix protocols to your Unix boxes.  It's the logical inverse of
> Samba.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Services+For+Unix%22
> 
>   So, with SFU, you could use closer-to-native tools (like NIS or
> LDAP) to have the Unix boxes authenticate to Active Directory.  That
> would probably yield a smoother integration, since those protocols
> provide more Unix-like capabilities than SMB does.  You could, for
> example, control the Unix home directory path from AD, or the Unix
> UID/GID.  I've never used SFU myself, but I've heard of others who
> have used it successfully (for something).
> 

And James Fogg did presentations to DLSLUG and CentraLUG back in 
December of 2005. His notes from that meeting are at:

http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/WindowsLinuxInterOpDec2005

He did talk a bit about SFU 3.5 in Windows Server 2003, then in beta.