Single sign-on suggestions?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 7/26/06, Alf-Ivar Holm <alfh at student.matnat.uio.no> wrote:
> I haven't tested this approach, but someone seems to have succeeded by
> using Active Directory, and it appeared that you hadn't tried that:
>
>         http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/?p=6
>
> Too bad the slapd approach didn't work out (yet).  I have been
> thinking about trying that one, but haven't had the time.
>
>         Affi

thanks, will look into that. Slapd *is* working for me, just fine,
with unix accounts. It's been working a couple of weeks now with no
problems -- I can even change my password on either of the PCs and
have it immediately reflected in the other.

But I wasn't able to get LDAP integrated with Samba. I suspect it's
possible, after I create a domain controller, get winbind working and
add a bunch of groups and users that Windows expects. But, really, it
just isn't worth that level of complexity for two Ubuntu PCs and a
Mac. I don't have any Windows PCs left in the house.

What I probably should do is abandon Samba entirely and just go with
NFS, but that has its own level of (arguably unnecessary) complexity.

-Eamonn