Hello Luigi, I recently set up a system like the one you describe (ours works with XP, OSX, Linux, and Solaris) and after researching I decided to go with OpenLDAP and Samba. I personally never found a seamless comercial solution I was happy with and at least with the open source tools you weren't dealing with yet another black box. Since you asked on this list, were you looking for a solution that is going to be scalable to a large cluster, or is this just for your servers and workstations? Mike Edwards UTSA/UTHSCSA Joint Computational Biology Facility On 6/26/06, Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > Hi Luigi > > Luigi Manna wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am new on the list but not new with Bioclusters. I am trying to > > setup an authentication system for our 64 node cluster that integrates > > with our web services (all Apache/PHP based) and our desktop management > > (mix of XP, Mac OS X and Linux). At the moment there's no authentication > > platform for any of these (other then local files). > > Hmmm... > > > Is there a > > commercial solution that you might recommend that integrates > > authentication among all these plaforms ? I checked on Vintela and > > Novell but I wanted to know what other people are doing. I could just > > run a secure OpenLDAP but its management tools leave much to be > > desidered and our management prefers commercial tools for businees > > continuity purposes. > > There are a variety of directory server products out there. Fedora > Directory Server is available from RedHat. LDAP with a nice java-ish > user interface. Sun has a directory server available, as do Novell, and > many others, including Microsoft. Linux,OSX,XP can/should be able to > integrate with all of these. There are others as well. > > Simply depends upon how hard you want to work, how much you want to > spend on fancy tools. > > > > > Any ideas ? Thanks much, > > > > Luigi-- > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics LLC, > email: landman at scalableinformatics.com > web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com > phone: +1 734 786 8423 > fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >