Active directory authentication + pptpd (poptop)
June 29, 2010
The poptop site has a great article on this… http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/replacing-windows-pptp-with-linux-howto.phtml
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The poptop site has a great article on this… http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/replacing-windows-pptp-with-linux-howto.phtml
This site has a great article on how to enable LDAP auth (AD) w/ subversion + apache running on a linux machine… http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/06/apache_and_subversion_authentication_with_microsoft_active_directory/
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