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.
Thanks.
Hmm... I believe Active Directory can be connected to via LDAP, right? There are people doing LDAP auth in Drupal, so you might want to look in that direction.
Brett Evanson
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Fred Jones fredthejonester@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.
Thanks.
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.comwrote:
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.
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...
On Feb 15, 2011 3:11 PM, "Fred Jones" fredthejonester@gmail.com wrote:
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...
Probably. If its a chroot type host, you might be able to hack something together.
You might also see if there's some type of windows soap authentication interface you can setup with ssl on his end and hack around with that. You might also see if windows can export the users and password hashes to db and have a mysql table with that. Also, I think I mentioned that nmap has some rpc packages you might try to implement (though that may require root - idk). And if they have ruby on the server, metasploit will definitely work.
I'd start off looking for a php windows auth module though. Past that, it might be up to you to take any of the above and reverse engineer something into php.
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