Making Linux a First Class Citizen in Active Directory
Welcome to Likewise Open
Likewise Open is an open source, community project sponsored by Likewise Software to provide fast & easy integration into networks utilizing Microsoft's Active Directory domains. Likewise Open is licensed under the Version 3 of the GNU General Public License so you can download it for free. Or, if you would like to become involved with the project, join one of the community mailing lists and discuss Likewise Open with other users and developers.
Key features
- Joins Linux systems to Active Directory domains in a single step from the command line or from a GUI
- Authenticates users with a single user name and password on both Windows and Linux systems
- Enforces the same password policies for Linux users as for Windows users
- Support for multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts
- Single sign-on for SSH and Putty
- Single UID automatically assigned
- Credential caching in the event of temporary loss of connectivity to the Active Directory Domain Controller
- No Active Directory schema changes involved
- Most recent Linux distributions supported
