Why not just use pGINA (http://pgina.xpasystems.com/) and get rid of worrying about ADS. See http://pgina.xpasystems.com/ this way you can get Windows boxes to authenticate directly against an LDAP server with little or no work. Its LDAP V3 compliant and shourl work with LDAP v2. I know it may not be what you are looking for but I thought that I would suggest it anyways. HTH. Cheers, Aly. Ivan Ruskov wrote: > Hi, > > > > I have a couple of windows users and I would like them to be available in > Linux. The FDS has a great feature which is the Active Directory > synchronization. I read attentively the documentation and searched the > source code but I did not find answers to my questions so I post them here. > > > > For a user to be available in Linux she has to have a valid uid number. How > is the field uidNumber populated during inbound synchronization? (same for > the user's home directory) > > > > When the windows users are organized in a tree of OUs do I have to create > the containers in FDS manually or are they created automatically by the > synchronization plug-in? (the FDS documentation mentions something about > this but it wasn't very clear to me) > > > > Thanks. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -- Aly S.P Dharshi aly.dharshi at telus.net "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject"
