SAMBA , KERBEROS and VMS

[gstatton]

I was wondering if anyone has tried this implimentation to get OpenVMS machines to authenticate over ActiveDirectory. Or if someone has any other solutions to accomplish the same thing.
Thanks.

 

[mjpearson]

What do you mean by authenticate? Are you trying to do NFS or just trying to be access to MS file systems?

Why would you want to contaminate your VMS with Microsoft?

 

[gstatton]

One of the big reasons is to have consice even log corilation amongst all of our systems. Another bonus would be to cut back on the number of different logon's a givin user has to remember, as well as different password cycle times. What I am trying to do is have "Single Sign-on" if you will, between UNIX, WIN NT, WIN2K, and our OpenVMS boxes...possible?

 

[gstatton]

Sorry, I ment Event Log Correlation

 

[mjpearson]

It sounds like a good idea but I have no idea how to do it. I tend to think that it would be a very significant undertaking to accomplish. Trying to get the two systems to authenticate against each other would be very, very difficult to do. I also think the two different file structures and syntax would get in the way of a clean interface.

You might be able to implement it more "cleanly" using some sort of Network File System (NFS). This tends to be a more uniform standard between systems. I would think that the VMS side would be clean but the Windows side might get really dicey.

The recent efforts to clean up some of the security problems in Windows might als get in your way. As soon as you find something that works, it might get blown out of the water with upcoming security patches from MS.

mike

 

[gstatton]

Thanks for your help, that's what I was thinking. Thanks for the idea of using some sort of NFS implimentation... that just may work.....or maybe just some sort of secure rsync-ing of the logs....