We bit the bullet here at the new Ellendale data centre. LDAP authentication! Works like a bought one.
Coinciding with the relocation of the prime server from Rubicon DC to Ellendale DC, we’ve implemented LDAP authentication for Linux and Mac OS X clients. There’s also automounted home directories to boot! It went quite smoothly, all things considered.
Now will come the dreaded data reorganisation (there’s about 1.5TB of storage across all the Crossed Wires machines). Also, I’ve been running Samba 3 for a while so there’s probably not much reason to keep putting off integrating the Windows boxes into LDAP as well…
Crossed Wires 