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Authenticating Active Directory users on Linux with Likewise Open

01.28.2010 · Posted in Linux, Security, UNIX

Historically, if you wanted to use Active Directory to authenticate users on a UNIX box, you were pretty much limited to using LDAP. This works fine for some people, but it’s not particularly elegant – especially if you’re having to create users home directories all the time, which negates some of the point of centralising ...