CentOS magic to Active Directory login?

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> I did not mean to confuse.   My goal is to NOT have to create a local
> account on the Linux box - to instead allow a user to log into the
> Linux box as though it was a Windows box that is part of the domain -
> their login credentials authenticate against a genuine Windows Active
> Directory controller, see the user exists, and they are able to log
> in.   Samba does have an option to give the user a shell if login is
> successful.
> 
> Now, I don't care if the Linux box has actually joined the domain - I
> only want the ability of the user to successfully be able to
> authenticate against it and log in.  Maybe the box will need to be a
> member - something I'll learn along the way.

Much easier.  ;-)
I'll recommend LikeWise.  It's free, and it makes it (relatively) easy for
you to join the domain with a linux system, similar to how you would if you
had a windows system.

I hear concentric is something like this too, but I haven't used them.

Just as Windows will create a home dir for you upon your first login,
LikeWise will do this for linux users upon their first login.  It will cache
credentials, you can take your laptop away.

This is what I use on my ubuntu laptop, joined onto AD.