NetworkAuthentication

Status

• Created: Date(2005-04-25T05:47:19Z) by JaneW

• Priority: MediumPriority

• People: MatthiasKloseLead, JimMcQuillanSecond

• Contributors: JaneW

• Interested: EricHarrison

• Status: BrainDump, BreezyGoal, UduBof, DistroSpecification, NewSpec

• Branch:
• Malone Bug:
• Packages:
• Depends:
• Dependents:

  FullSearch(NetworkAuthentication)

• UduSessions: 1, 4, 8, etc

Introduction

Network Authentication – LDAP, AD, NIS, NIS+ Directory Integration

Rationale

Scope and Use Cases

Implementation Plan

• Network auth on the client seems to be doable for breezy
  • add tool the configure nsswitch.conf
  • make sure the needed packages for an authentication method are installed on the system
  • questions to configure the auth method are not at with Ubuntu's default priority

Data Preservation and Migration

Packages Affected

User Interface Requirements

Outstanding Issues

UDU BOF Agenda

• LDAP
  • Client Config
    • authconfig or equivalent? (can start nscd, modifies nsswitch.conf and other config files)
  • Server Config
    • some scripts
    • graphical front ends
      • directory-administrator
      • ...
• Authentication against ADS
• NIS
• NIS+
• eDirectory (Novell directory services, some LDAP ...)
• Kerberos
• Samba4 comes with it's own LDAP server ...

UDU Pre-Work