This article should mention a commercial solution called Centrify (http://www.centrify.com) which is a much more robust solution for extending MS Active Directory to non-MSFT systems such as Unix, Linux, Mac as well as Java/J2EE-based web apps....

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Using LDAP for authentication isn't a good idea at all, not to mention adding an administrator username and password to the ldap.conf file. It is better to integrate your Linux client into Active Directory using Kerberos as the Authentication method. Look at Vintela's VAS for an off-the-shelf solu...

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As an alternative, you might want to try out Likewise Open (http://www.likewisesoftware.com/community; disclaimer: I work for Likewise). This is an open source, free, product that can quickly join UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X to AD with a minimum of fuss (it doesn't need any extra data in AD). We have a comm...

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