Hi All,
I'm interested in establishing a computing lab for the CS major at my liberal arts college. I have a fair amount of single system Linux experience, but I am less familiar with system wide administration issues.
I'd like to have a setup where I have 20+ computers that authenticate their logins through a central server. In other words, a student could log into any of these machines, change his/her password, then walk across the room and log into the new machine with his/her new password. Somehow the client would get an authentication through the server Windows AD style.
I've done some googling on this and ran across lots of LDAP/AD/Kerberos HOWTOs, but the ones I encountered were geared toward getting Linux to authenticate with Windows servers. I also ran into PAM stuff, but it's not clear PAM itself is what I'm looking for.
Does anybody have any advice on what sort of configuration I should consider in this case on both the server and client end? Or, if I'm in the wrong forum, could you point me to the right one? I would greatly appreciate any help.
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