<div><font color="#663366"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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. </font></font></div>
<div><font color="#663366"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#663366"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">First, what's the easiest one to setup and use? Something with a simple GUI would be desirable: a webmin module perhaps?</font></font></div>
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</font></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,51,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Most ideal would be something that is in line with our desire to </span><span style="color:rgb(102,51,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">move towards single sign on, ultimately authenticating against Google Apps. </span><span style="color:rgb(102,51,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Does Google provide something supported? Is there something that can </span><font color="#663366" face="verdana, sans-serif">proxy google apps auth to an oVirt supported protocol?</font></div>
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</font></div><div><font color="#663366" face="verdana, sans-serif">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?</font></div>
<div><font color="#663366" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#663366" face="verdana, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font color="#663366" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#663366" face="verdana, sans-serif">These are just thoughts and I am completely open to suggestions. Thanks in advance for any input! =)</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><div>_______________<br>Alan Johnson<br><a href="mailto:alan@datdec.com" target="_blank">alan@datdec.com</a><br>
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