From: William Enestvedt (Will.Enestvedt@jwu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 15:50:28 EST
I would like to authenticate a small number of Sun shell accounts against a
large Windows 2000 Active Directory installation. However, my Solaris
usernames aren't the same as the Windows account names. Is there a way around
this, or do I need to use MS Services for Unix? Oh, and to up the ante, I
don't have NIS running, and I'd like to avoid it if I can.
(Before anyone suggests it, I've got the Blueprints book and I've searched
the web -- besides the inaccesible archives -- but I'm just sort of
overwhelmed.)
The usernames are all of the format 'firstinitiallastname'; on the Suns
they're truncated to eight characters, while AD allows the full last name if
it's longer. People with long last names, like mine, get them cut short on the
Suns -- so a direct match of username-to-username won't work.
Am I fundamentally missing some super-neat feature of the Solaris 8 LDAP
client that would take care of this, or do I need a "middleware" solution to
map the usernames?
Thanks in advance for helping me understand.
-wde
-- Will Enestvedt UNIX System Administrator Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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