[support] Active Directory on Linux Server

[Fred Jones]

> 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.

Sounds like I would need a dedicated server for this. This client has
regular shared hosting...