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On Sunday 14 June 2009 17:57, Simon Waters wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > What you need is something that will allow some poor sod who has to use > > an MS package to access your LDAP setup. > > Lots around. > > PGina is the first one Google found. > > Novell and SUN also have offerings, no idea which if any are Free Software. > > I don't think much is needed beyond authentication, and running a script > at login to achieve most things, most folks need from their integration > to an authentication system. > > But I think the trying to work with Microsoft software is the wrong > solution (possibly needed some times), but we should be delivering > "everything in a box" servers. That we aren't suggests we are missing a > trick, possibly by slavishly copying the way other folk do things. LDAP provides everything you need in terms of 'security configuration'. If you cant do what you want to with it then what you want to do is no possible/sensible. The caveat to that is there is some software that doesn't run on linux/UNIX/Mac and, unless you can successfully use physical diplomacy against people higher than IT you will HAVE to interface with windows. MS make this as hard as possible leaving two options: 1) restrict the availability of resources to MS users 2) try and fit them in as best as possible. option 2 will be the better all round as it gives you a mental work out - most realistic solutions can be achieved and you my learn/revise some important issues and if you cant get a fit then theres almost certainly something fundamentally wrong with what your trying to achieve even if it does seem easy to MS trained monkeys. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html