Domain Controller in Linux
 

Hi, I m using RHEL5. I just wanna to know that is there any concept of domain controller in linux? If yes, How can we configure our linux server as a domain controller.
Please answer.

Hi, mamtasahai1,

When you say "Domain Controller" in micr.. env. you mean "Centralized authentication for a domain".

Yes, Linux has following things doing the same:

1) NIS
2) LDAP
3) KERBEROS
and so on

Out of which, I have used second option which is used for authentication and as a resource locator on all linux machines. Remaining machines (mic..) use samba server for the purpose which in turn gets the data from the same open ldap server.


Hope, this gives you some hints,


Aniruddha