Integration Of ESX 3.5 With LDAP,AD,NIS,Kerberos Authentication Frameworks

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I would really love to know about Integration Of ESX 3.5 With LDAP,AD,NIS,Kerberos Authentication Frameworks and its intricacies in detail and depth.Are there any Docs,manuals or links where I can forage for this info and as to how the authentication works with the above and configuring with LDAP .....I know,VC Server integrates automatically with the AD,which is actually really helpful and productive..Can this be integrated with NIS too?

Appreciate any input.

[stvkpln]

What ESX does (note, this does not work with ESXi) is leverage the service console being built on Linux and makes use of PAM to provide local user authentication. What you want to do is look through the parameters of esxcfg-auth, that should give you what you need. Keep in mind, that'll just provide an authentication mechanism; you'll still need to create local accounts that will authenticate to the source, whether that be active directory, NIS, LDAP, or whatever.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Check out my Single Sign On wiki article for instructions, etc. This contains AD over LDAP-S, AD w/Winbind, and NIS remote authentication integration documents plus how to secure them.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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Thanks