Re: Fronting SSH (Linux)Server with Windows repository?

PAM with SSH will get the user authenticated to the system. How you 
handle home directories is completely outside the scope of anything SSH 
handles, but I'd recommend you look into something like amd or autofs to 
take care of that piece for you.

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006, toadie D wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> Sorry about the confusion here.  What i wanted to do is to use SSH
> Server on Linux to handle all the SSH protocol, but the **home
> directory** of the user needs to be hosted by a Windows Server share
> and the user credentials need to be maintained in Windows AD.
>
> It's a bit convoluted but I am constrained by the requirements.
>
> > There are a fwe ways to do that, but one of them would be to use an LDAP
> > PAM module.
>
> Where would I be able to find these documentations?
>
> Thanks
> Toadie.
>
>
>
>
> On 11/9/06, Patrick Morris <trick@adonis.net> wrote:
> > toadie D wrote:
> > > ( new to SSH and Linux Security)
> > >
> > > Is it possible to run a SSH Server on Linux that has a repository on a
> > > Windows machine?
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "repository" here, but if I'm following
> > you, it sounds like you just want to authenticate SSH against AD.
> >
> > There are a fwe ways to do that, but one of them would be to use an LDAP
> > PAM module.