On Wednesday 02 December 2009 6:55:15 pm Scott Ehrlich wrote:

I have the following on a network:

1. RHEL 5.0 Server acting as NIS and Samba domain controller

2. CentOS 5.x machines on NIS network

3. Win XP machines on Samba domain

When I create an account for someone, I need to first type adduser new_person -d /home/new_person then passwd new_person, then cd /var/yp and make. Then smbpasswd -a new_person. Thus, two different databases.

On another network, I have separate XP and Linux (CentOS 5.x, RHEL 5.x, and Suse) systems. No Samba, no NIS. Can I still set up a central LDAP directory for a single account database?

For the NIS+Samba case, can I merge both credential files into a central database using LDAP? I would also want to control password length, complexity, aging, and other things.

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks.

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In your case, you should look at samba with the LDAP backend. This will allow all data to be in LDAP for the non-Windows boxes, and the Windows clients would treat it as an NT4 styled domain.