Re: [Users] call for suggests on oVirt authentication back-end (directory service, etc.)

On 10/09/2012 03:56 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > Thanks to Tim Hildred, I found out about the need to have a directory > server. Before I embark on this path, I thought I could ping the > community to get a since for what is common, easy, and/or available to > best suit our wants. > > First, what's the easiest one to setup and use? Something with a simple > GUI would be desirable: a webmin module perhaps? > > Most ideal would be something that is in line with our desire to move > towards single sign on, ultimately authenticating against Google Apps. > Does Google provide something supported? Is there something that can > proxy google apps auth to an oVirt supported protocol? > > Alternately, we have an LDAP server, but it does NOT store passwords, > and as such, does not provide authentication for anything. Will oVirt > store passwords for users created from such an LDAP service, or does > LDAP need to be the authority as well?

> > Finally, we also have NIS setup (thought we hope to get away from that > soon), so some means of authenticating through the systems local PAM > system would be the next most convenient. > > These are just thoughts and I am completely open to suggestions. Thanks > in advance for any input! =) in the future, well, everything is possible. for now, your choices are: freeIPA/IPA 389ds/RHDS MS AD Tivoli DS ovirt does not store passwords (other than for admin@internal) _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users