Using Active Directory only to authenticate

[Carsten Schurig]

Bernhard Reiter schrieb:

> There are two general models:
> 1) use a regular sync from AD to Kolab's OpenLDAP.
> 2) a tighter integration where the Kolab Server directly
> asks the AD for everything.

If I just want to have an authentification of a user, wouldn't it be 
possible to use PAM? If that's true, it's quite easy to use winbindd of 
samba 3 to authenticate to a Windows AD server (I configured this to 
authenticate users for our subversion repositories: svn -> apache -> pam 
-> winbindd -- works very well so far...).

Cheers,
  Carsten