[ubuntu-uk] Central authentication in Ubuntu

[Chris Rowson]

> Greetings,
>
>     Ive just achieved similar us NIS. It took me a few days but I
> managed to get it working:
>
>     This helped: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/36
>
>     Also there is something called LDAP but thats for another day with me.
>
>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenLDAPServer
>
>     Have fun
>
>     Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for that -

LDAP is the standard Active Directory runs on (well, kinda - although
MS has bastardised it a bit). I'm reasonably comfortable with that and
wouldn't mind giving it a go. One thing that confuses me is how to
configure the client side (ie join a domain etc). I'm guessing it'll
all be on the command line.

Chris