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In the scenario where a company has windows domain in place, which mos of them do, I wonder if NIS or OpenLDAP server is needed. Seeing that now you can authenticate Linux computers to Active Directory and users can login to linux computers after authenticating with Active Diretcory.<br />
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Any help will be very much appreciated.<br />
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Thank you
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In the scenario where a company has windows domain in place, which mos of them do, I wonder if NIS or OpenLDAP server is needed. Seeing that now you can authenticate Linux computers to Active Directory and users can login to linux computers after authenticating with Active Diretcory.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thank you

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