accessing Active Directory from Linux

[Amir R]

Hi

I am looking for suggestions on accomplishing the
following:

From Linux access Active Directory (using any supported
protocol between two systems). Active Directory can reside
on any of window OS(2000, XP,..).

By access I mean passing userid and password and receiving
authentication and then be able to possibly retrieve some
information about the user. i.e. support level(bronze,
silver, gold)

Is such a thing possible. I know Active directory has
scripting language ADSI. But that one is in VBasic and as
far as I know Linux does not run VBasic.

Any help is appreciated.

Amir

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

Yes you can do authentication and retrieve info via LDAP calls. I have people hitting my AD to authenticate folks and
retrieve info on Solaris, HPUX, various flavors of Linux, and also I think even some main frame apps.