Fedora directory users - Jun 2005 - fedora directory and active directory

I''m embarking on a project at my company to sync the two together.
It''s
not important for me that fedora directory updates (passwords, etc) make 
it back to the active directory server, so I''d hope that the setup
would
be fairly straight forward.

It seems like this would be a common/useful way to use FDS and beyond 
setting it up myself I''m interested in writing a HOWTO so that others 
can do this easily without indepth knowledge of FDS or LDAP.

I do, however, lack this knowledge myself. Can someone provide a high 
level overview of what''s needed to make this happen? I can fill in 
details myself as I have many years of UNIX, but reading through the 
online manual for most of the day it''s not obvious to me how much setup
needs to be done beyond the chapter specifically about syncing with 
active directory.

Is anyone aware of any resources or willing to provide some guidance on 
how to make this happen?

Thanks, and I promise at least a rough HOWTO out of this effort.

Will

William Francis wrote:
> I''m embarking on a project at my company to sync the two together.
> It''s not important for me that fedora directory updates
(passwords,
> etc) make it back to the active directory server, so I''d hope that
the
> setup would be fairly straight forward.
This is an intrinsic supported feature. How to configure the feature is
documented in the Administrators Guide.
>
> It seems like this would be a common/useful way to use FDS and beyond 
> setting it up myself I''m interested in writing a HOWTO so that
others
> can do this easily without indepth knowledge of FDS or LDAP.
It''s pretty easy : just create a ''sync agreement'' in
the console UI,
following the wizzard. You also need to install the Password Sync Service
on your Active Directory machine in order to have passwords
sync''ed _from_ Windows to DS (the other direction works without
the Password Sync Service).
> I do, however, lack this knowledge myself. Can someone provide a high 
> level overview of what''s needed to make this happen? I can fill in
> details myself as I have many years of UNIX, but reading through the 
> online manual for most of the day it''s not obvious to me how much 
> setup needs to be done beyond the chapter specifically about syncing 
> with active directory.
What other kinds of information were you looking for ?
>
> Thanks, and I promise at least a rough HOWTO out of this effort.
Hopefully no howto is needed beyond reading the manual.