From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "arslan saeed" Subject: single sign-on for linux ? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 01:49:29 +0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <004501c2ed8f$e0f230b0$47cb643f@tipu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org hi, We are running all linux backend solution in our network. From DHCP, DNS , SQUID, SAMBA, Firewall, NIDS, FTP, printing, Sendmail, IPOP to Oracle databases and financial software everything is running on redhat and suse linux. Currently we have windows 98, 2k and XP clients in network. We want to achieve single signon facility, in which users type their username/password credentials once to access all the services. I was wondering how to make it happen in such diversified enviroment (backend linux n frontend windows). we dont have windows 2000 Active directory installed , neither I would like to go for windows solution in backend. I would like to achieve it in linux-only solution. I think single signon could be achieved through LDAP, Kerberos and by configuring all services to use LDAP/Kerberos or is there another way. Any thoughts and experiences regarding the matter is eagerly waited. thanks. arslan.