Mike Miller writes:

> We have been using an NT box to do authentication for the VMS machines. 
> I don't know the details there, but I think the VMS system passwords are 
> the same as the NT Domain passwords and the VMS box communicates with the 
> NT box when someone tries to log into the VMS server.  We want Linux to be 
> able to use this same system.  How can that be accomplished?  Our IT guys 
> thought there might be an LDAP-based solution, but they haven't been able 
> to come up with it yet.  It would be a big time saver if we could get 
> something to do the authentication for us.

there are ways to do this such as pam_smb 
and i believe winbind lets you do this as well.

--
Munir Nassar

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