On 1/28/2014 4:45 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Use IPA. It combines LDAP with Kerberos, a server-client environment is >> >easily setup and the documentation (RHEL deployment) is very helpful. > Thank you. I'll look it up. > > LDAP and Kerberos though. That does sound a lot like Microsoft Active > Directory.8-) > > -- FreeIPA provides an open source Active Directory equivalent. its pretty easy to setup a simple directory server, and it can expand to be an enterprise-wide directory. it allows both linux and windows computers to participate in the authentication domain. yes, its basically LDAP and Kerberos, with a management suite. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast