If you're really using NT I would think that pam_smb (http://pamsmb.sourceforge.net/) would do the trick. If you're using active directory I seem to recall someone going into the details of setting up an ldap link to authenticate against AD, but the details escape me. It may have even been a NET-PEOPLE posting. I think that pam_smb will do the authentication, but it doesn't do anything for mapping across groups and the likes so those still end up being maintained on the unix side while the ldap solution can fetch back group memberships and the likes. --rick Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Richard Hoffbeck wrote: > >> But look at it from the IT managers point of view. You've got 100+ >> people set up for user authentication against VMS with no easy way to >> utilize that service from Linux/Solaris/etc. So you can require users >> to have accounts on both the new and old system, or you spring for >> proprietary software to keep passwords in sync or export the >> authentication services - I'm pretty sure there's a 3rd party NFS/NIS >> package available and of course there is always PathWorks (if clear >> text passwords don't bother you) but they both co$t. > > > We have been using an NT box to do authentication for the VMS > machines. I don't know the details there, but I think the VMS system > passwords are the same as the NT Domain passwords and the VMS box > communicates with the NT box when someone tries to log into the VMS > server. We want Linux to be able to use this same system. How can > that be accomplished? Our IT guys thought there might be an > LDAP-based solution, but they haven't been able to come up with it > yet. It would be a big time saver if we could get something to do the > authentication for us. > > Thanks in advance for any tips. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list