[plug] User authentication

[Craig Ringer]

> If I want to set up some form of central user authentication in a mixed
> linux/ windows environment, what are the options, and the pros and cons
> of each?

Depends a lot on what windows infrastructure your're using and what OS 
releases.

If its a win9x network, consider a Samba machine providing NT-style 
domain logons. If you've got an existing winNT or win2K PDC, you could 
use libpam-smb and samba to authenticate linux users off the windows PDC.

Another option is a shared LDAP directory - I /think/ win2k can get user 
auth out of non-mangled (eg AD-ified) LDAP.

I haven't done too much of this in practice, however so can't offer all 
that much in terms of implementation hints.

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