Informix Active Directory Support on Linux
Robert Kruse asked how to authenticate internal Informix users against LDAP on Linux, since LDAP is supported on Windows. Pete McDonnell said his Kerberos SSO investigation with Samba/winbind failed and a PMR gave no fix. Eric Vercelletto urged that a fix be provided. Fernando Nunes said LDAP authentication on Linux is possible via PAM (pam_ldap) with mapped users. Pete gave his PMR number.
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All, I'm researching using internal Informix user accounts and need to find out if there are methods for authenticating an internal user account with LDAP on a Linux platform. I do see that LDAP is supported on Windows. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Bob This electronic message transmission contains information from the Company that may be proprietary, confidential and/or privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying or distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to the address listed in the "From:" field.
I did some investigation into this last year, not this exact issue, but identification of users that logged on to a Linux system using Kerberos SSO (Samba/winbind). It didn't go well and a PMR didn't result in a fix. Are you doing Kerberos based SSO, or simply using AD for authentication? Are you using sssd or Samba/winbind? What is your Linux distribution and version? What is the IDS version? Thanks! Pete
Peter, regarding your PMR, has been there any IPAR provided to you? on which version was that? My position is that such a fix HAS to be provided, unless you are the only company in the universe to use this functionality. Even though, a supported functionality that does not work HAS TO BE FIXED. COuld you provided PMR number and IPAR number? Thanks Eric
You can authenticate users against LDAP on Unix/Linux by using PAM. Additionally you'll probably will want to use mapped users, as Informix needs the OS to recognize the user account (for explain file an trace file creation and for SYSTEM() inside SPL). PAM configuration needs to be done for LDAP...Typically using pam_ldap module. Regards On Jul 15, 2014 8:51 PM, "Kruse, Robert" <bob.kruse@galaxyhotelsystems.com> wrote: > All, > > I'm researching using internal Informix user accounts and need to find out > if > there are methods for authenticating an internal user account with LDAP on > a > Linux platform. I do see that LDAP is supported on Windows. Any thoughts on > this? > > Thanks, > > Bob > This electronic message transmission contains information from the Company > that may be proprietary, confidential and/or privileged. The information is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If > you > are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying or > distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If > you > have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the > sender > immediately by replying to the address listed in the "From:" field. > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > --089e01183138ed159304fe72b6f3
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