From: JV (jv711@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 22:45:28 EST
It seems like a popular request around here, so I am forwarding this
to the group. I have not tried it personally, but I'm sure there is a
need for these sorts of technologies. There are pros and cons to this
particular software in the body of the .pdf below.
Here is Sun's blurb about it:
http://sunflash.sun.com/articles/82/1/opt-sysadmin/13828
"Using pGINA to Authenticate Users in Microsoft Windows Environments"
Article Targets Mixed Environments
Authors Dave Pickens and Kent Price have written a Sun BluePrints
OnLine article entitled, "Using pGINA to Authenticate Users in
Microsoft Windows Environments" to assist users in setting up a
unified authentication scheme in a heterogeneous environment that
includes UNIX-based computing systems and Microsoft Windows.
The authors address the number of problems that can be encountered
when attempting this type of set-up. From the Windows default
structure that drives to use its own authentication to the end of
support for a number of Windows versions, the authors identify these
issues as ones that can cause problems for system administrators who
want to incorporate a single unified authentication mechanism.
Pickens and Price compare the typical authentication architecture
that is often derived and cumbersome to maintain, against what an
ideal one can offer using Graphical Identification and Authentication
(GINA) with Pluggable Graphical Identification and Authentication
(pGINA).
GINA is defined as a dynamic-link library (DDL) that is part of the
Windows operating system, and the authors outline each one of its
three functions. These are SAS Recognition, User Interface and Shell
Creation.
The article then presents pGINA as an add-on DLL for the standard
Microsoft GINA. "pGINA provides the skeleton code necessary to
quickly and easily implement many different methods of user
authentication. Once a plug-in has been created for a particular
authentication method, it can be easily installed on multiple
systems. The new plug-in can be made available to other users without
the users needing an indepth understanding of the Windows logon
process. Some of the plug-ins that already exist for pGINA are
OpenLDAP and Radius."
A list of situations that are conducive to pGINA and ones that are
not are given to allow the reader to identify how their environment
might handle this implementation.
The article then presents a case study on Valley City State
University or VCSU. The challenges, solution, software and hardware
are outlined giving the reader a true case scenario.
Here is Sun's .pdf:
http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0604/817-7043.pdf
later~
JV711
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