Robert, I agree with Jon with using Kerberos to do authentication against the AD. Currently using it as a central auth point for a large hosting platform. Setup has a mix of windows/linux machines. Here is a link of a decent howto. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryHowto You can apply this to pretty much any linux flavor. -mike Jon Schewe wrote: > Robert De Mars wrote: >> Hello, and a good day to you all. Does anyone have experience with >> using 2003 Active Directory to authorize linux boxes/users? >> >> I did some searching on google and found some good info, but I wanted to >> check with a human first. >> >> Any tips or thoughts on this would be great. >> > You can also just setup the machine for kerberos authentication and > authenticate against the AD (windows authentication is just Kerberos). >