Are there any Linux domain models out there?

[MadRat]

I am more in touch with NTDS and AD models and have no clue what is currently available with Linux. Are there any domain types of schema for Linux machines where you can just sync up the systems with a centralized schema for authentication and then users login based on a centralized database? I imagine anything like this would use LDAP. Anyone?

 

[Vadatajs]

The main linux/unix domains in my experience are NIS, LDAP and KEON. In comparison to the windows world, NIS would be comparable to a NT4 domain, (plus or minus some features here and there), LDAP would be active directory (as both are actually LDAP in practice, and you can use LDAP to authenticate a UNIX machine with an AD domain), and KEON is like a propriatary LDAP, with additional logging, and more the flexibility to add individual access routes to individual users, without creating groups like LDAP. All three authenticate off of a centralized database.

Of course there are others, and their implementations differ. I'm just describing the 3 I use at work.

 

[n0cmonkey]

kerberos + ldap. Isn't that what Microsoft based their AD on after all?

 

[pcthuglife]

I did it using samba. Very basic. It just has centralized authentication and each user has a log on script that's used to sync their data with their home directory on the server.

Well, this was the setup until we bought a Windows 2003 server... Which IMO has been a pain in the butt ever since.

 

[MadRat]

So how did you use Samba to authenticate users centrally? I'd like to be able to create a generic Linux install where the users login to the server and go from there. So far the only real way to do it seems to be use a generic autologin on the Linux desktop and then have them use terminal services.