I am happily using samba/winbind to authenticate users logging in from our company's active directory. The YaST interface to this is as simple as it can be. What I am curious about is how much more one can do. Like: 1. limit the logins to user names in a list on the linux box? Sounds odd, I know. But the AD does not have a useful group to select, and even if it did, the samba/winbind implementation seems not to support this. This may be more of a PAM question, as I guess it could be a pam module that manages/tests the list. Any ideas? 2. Is it possible to obtain any more information about the user? Like their full name, e-mail address, etc? In fact, when they log in on a Windows PC, they use the Novell client for Windows, which also manages things like mounting remote file systems. Is there any way to access this information from Linux? The Novell client for Linux is a moving target - you never know which release of openSUSE on which it will run. So I am looking for a reliable solution that has a greater chance of working across openSUSE releases. Are there any discussions of having openSUSE interoperate with a Novell environment? I know there is for the Novell Linux releases. But these have additional features (e.g., a working NCL) that openSUSE often lacks. A discussion from an openSUSE point of view would be useful. It would be nice to know what Novell don't want to support on openSUSE in preference for a Novell release. Just so one knows where one stands. I can appreciate that they want to sell things. I have no problem with that. I would just like to know what they don't want on openSUSE. Like the NCL. Then I know which features require a Novell product. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org