Re: CVS authentication against AD

[Geoff Beier]

Praveen Boopathy wrote:
> How do we authenticate CVS against Microsoft Active Directory?
>
> Let me provide some further details.
>
> We have our cvs server established in Linux. 
> When I searched net for 'authenticating cvs against active directory',
> I came to know about PAM modules/patches available for the purpose.
>
> But I don't know how to apply them as I was not able to get proper 
> documentation.
>
> And could any of you explain where ldap comes in this picture??
> I am confused about this term also.
Active directory is an LDAP implementation at its core.
> I know what needs to be done (using windows network id as login id for cvs) but 
> I don't know how to do it :-
You mischaracterize what needs to be done. You want to use your Windows 
network login as a login id for GNU/Linux and have CVS use the system 
facilities (e.g. ssh) to authenticate. This way, no special 
configuration needs to be done specifically to CVS.

If you search the web:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pam+authenticate+active+directory&btnG=Google+Search

One of the first results is:

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1563

Which tells you how to do what you want. Further questions about this 
should probably be directed to a Linux forum, not a CVS forum.

More good information can be found on one of the sites referenced by the 
SF article:
http://www.css-solutions.ca/ad4unix/
(good solaris information here, for the person who wanted solaris info)

A slightly different approach is detailed here:
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:vJ_swX72AGkC:shell.cdc.net/~lds0062/fansites/pam_ldap/documents/ad_authentication_using_pam_ldap.htm+pam+authenticate+active+directory&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Geoff

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