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10.02.2007 at 07:17PM PDT, ID: 22868233
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FreeBSD to authenticate against Active Directory

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freebsd, directory, active

Hello,

Is there any up-to-date definitive resource which explains how to get FreeBSD (6.2) to authenticate against Active Directory (in my case Windows 2003 R2 which includes SFU).  There are a few informative articles floating around, but most date back to 2004/2005 and most involve the use of Samba and Winbind (I'd like to avoid this if possible).

I don't really know what is possible here, I'm coming from only a basic understanding of how things like pam work.  Would I have to configure every service separately to use Active Directory or could I tell FreeBSD to blindly rely on AD for user authentication?

I read about pam_mkhomedir, so users could have homedirs created automatically when they logged in.  Is this possible in FreeBSD?  Would I be able to map this automatically to their existing "My Documents" folder which is redirected to the network by group policy?

Please feel free to tell me what can/can't be done and if doing so is a good/bad thing.  I can explain bits in more detail if needed.

Kind regards,
Steve
Answered By: KCTS
Expert Since: 02/25/2007
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KCTS has been an Expert for 1 year 10 months, during which he has posted 19057 comments and answered 7058 questions. KCTS is just one of 54 experts in the BSD Unix Zone. 3 experts collaborated on this answer, which was graded an "A" by the asker.
 
 
 
 
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