[support] Active Directory on Linux Server

[shawn wilson]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>wrote:

> Can anyone confirm that it's indeed NOT possible to synchronize Active
> Directory (apparently this a Windows networking authentication system)
> with Drupal on a Linux server? I did find a blog post about how to
> synchronize, but it seems it would require a Windows server.
>
>
yes, you can setup ad on linux. if you go the ldap route, it relies on an
existing windows ad farm. however, if you go the samba4 route (still in
development, but getting pretty good http://news.samba.org/) you can setup,
run, and manage the whole thing from linux.

however, since ldap is such a pita to setup, i'm pretty sure you can find
something easier to setup that will use windows' ldap to authenticate.
samba3 will authenticate with ad
(username=domain/user,password=password,workgroup=domain).

what i don't know is what drupal uses for authentication. if it uses linux,
i'd look for a pam module.
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