William Francis wrote: > I'm embarking on a project at my company to sync the two together. > It's not important for me that fedora directory updates (passwords, > etc) make it back to the active directory server, so I'd hope that the > setup would be fairly straight forward. This is an intrinsic supported feature. How to configure the feature is documented in the Administrators Guide. > > It seems like this would be a common/useful way to use FDS and beyond > setting it up myself I'm interested in writing a HOWTO so that others > can do this easily without indepth knowledge of FDS or LDAP. It's pretty easy : just create a 'sync agreement' in the console UI, following the wizzard. You also need to install the Password Sync Service on your Active Directory machine in order to have passwords sync'ed _from_ Windows to DS (the other direction works without the Password Sync Service). > I do, however, lack this knowledge myself. Can someone provide a high > level overview of what's needed to make this happen? I can fill in > details myself as I have many years of UNIX, but reading through the > online manual for most of the day it's not obvious to me how much > setup needs to be done beyond the chapter specifically about syncing > with active directory. What other kinds of information were you looking for ? > > Thanks, and I promise at least a rough HOWTO out of this effort. Hopefully no howto is needed beyond reading the manual.
