[FreeNX-kNX] How to change authentication to support AD?

[Terje Andersen]

On Friday 09 December 2005 21:50, Manuel Zach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Freitag, den 09.12.2005, 12:59 +0100 schrieb
>
> terander at guard.zapto.org:
> > Have anyone managed to get FreeNX/NXServer to allow users from MS Active
> > Directory to logon ? I've followed the various articles found through
> > google on how to enable users from AD to logon to a Linux client with
> > various results, and none really successful....
> >
> > It would be great stuff to add to the FreeNX FAQ on Berlios, and I'll
> > write a How-to there if I can manage to get it to work.
>
> I have a FreeNX Server with authentication against a rather complex
> AD-Service in production use.
> I use pam_winbind, and I'm pretty happy with it.
> I have documented it here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto
>
> I also wrote https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActiveDirectoryHowto, this solution
> is more complex and the quality of this How-To is not yet fine.
>

Excellent! :-)

> Both are written for Ubuntu breezy and Windows 2003 Server, but it
> should also work for other distris.
>
> Please give me feedback whether the How-Tos are not good enough or if
> they could help you.
>

Sure thing, I will come back with feedback as soon as I've had a chance to 
implement AD support according to your guides (probably beginning of next 
week)

Thanks for sharing this!

;-)