From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; MSN 6.0) A neat feature during RH 7.x setup is that you may choose method of authentication (NIS, LDAP (cool!), Hesiod (????). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just run RH setup on version greater than 6.2 2. 3. Actual Results: You may choose method of authentication (NIS, LDAP (cool!), Hesiod (????). Expected Results: NT 4.0 Domain authentication would be an extremely usefull choice, not to mention an Active Directory choice (LDAP really but slightly modified by MS). Atleast 98% of all networks that I have seen so far use either NT Domain Authentication or Active Directory (60+ Small businesses in the Twin Citties Area, Rainier Tech., Anderen Windows, NSP, NRG, Target). In fact most of these organizations use NT or AD only. However, in light of Microsoft's recent Licensing and the fact that upgrades will now be forced every 4 years, since a new windows will hit the market every 24 months, and they only support n -1 versions, the cost of MS software is becoming prohibitive. This has caused several of these aforementioned organizations to take a closer look at OpenSource alternatives... Including mine. Now why not make it easy to include LINUX? Some of these organisations have 40 000 or more users... Being able to use the existing authentication model is a significant leverage in to an organisation....
*** Bug 26546 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The authconfig tool only configures other packages (nss_ldap, pam_krb5, glibc's libnss_hesiod.so, and so on). At the moment we don't have the client pieces needed to support logging into an NT domain in the distribution, though the winbind support which is slated for Samba 2.2 (http://us1.samba.org/samba/development.html) looks like it will provide these pieces. When we looked at it for the 7 release, it was already pretty far along, but it hadn't had an official release yet. I'm going to defer this bug until winbind is officially released.