On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:14 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
Aiko Barz wrote:
Hello,
is it possible to create an Active Directory forest with multible subdomains and make those informations available for one Linux machine? Right now, we have one domain and it is possible to do authentication against the Active Directory, while using OpenLDAP, PAM and Kerberos.
But now, another department would like to have its own directory/sub-domain. This means: uid=xyz will be located on different directory servers within the Active Directory forest. That means, there are UIDs with different BASEDNs.
CN=userA,OU=Users,DC=example,DC=local from AD1 and CN=userB,OU=Users,DC=sub,DC=example,DC=local from AD2 shall both be able to access a Linux box via SSH. No problem?
Regards, Aiko
There's nothing in OpenLDAP that would prevent this. This is a question more suited to either the pam_ldap or nss_ldap mailing lists. The only problem is you might have cn=userA representing two different users in both domains at once, and you'll have to have some kind of policy for dealing with those situations.
This is really the kind of thing that Samba and winbind does best. Winbind understands the topology, and creates accounts like AD1\userA and AD2\userB so that there is no possibility of conflict.
Andrew Bartlett