[CentOS] Authenticating against AD (without adding to domain)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone know if it's possible to auth users against AD and how?
>>>> I
>>>> don't want to register the station to the domain, just auth the
>>>> users
>>>> against it.
>>>> We have a local mediawiki installation that auths users against the
>>>> AD
>>>> without having any admin access to it.

> Actually it looks rather easy, e.g.
> http://seriousbirder.com/blogs/centos-6-with-kerberos-authentication/
>

That works for ordinary logins and ssh - you still need to add the
users but you don't have to maintain passwords.   Won't work for samba
shares, though.

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  Les Mikesell
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