Managing Login; Setting Up Integrated Login - Novell CLIENT FOR LINUX 2.0 SP3 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

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You can customize the client login environment with the following tasks to suit your network and
have greater control over what users can access during login:
Section 3.1, "Setting Up Integrated Login," on page 23
Section 3.2, "Setting Up Login Scripts," on page 26
Section 3.3, "Setting Up Login Restrictions," on page 26
Section 3.4, "Using OpenSLP to Simplify Login," on page 27
For more information, see
(Server or Tree)" in the Novell Client 2.0 SP3 for Linux User

3.1 Setting Up Integrated Login

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The Novell Client 2.0 for Linux provides a single, synchronized login to the SUSE
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desktop or server and your Novell network. Users enter a name and password only once to access all
the resources they are authorized to use.
IMPORTANT: The integrated login feature is not available if you log in as the
integrated login feature does not work if a workstation is set up to not ask for a password in the
display manager greeter.
For integrated login to work, the Novell Common Authentication Services Adapter (CASA) must be
installed and enabled. CASA is a common authentication and security package that provides a set of
libraries for application and service developers to enable single sign-on to an enterprise network.
Consider the following scenarios before setting up integrated login:
If Integrated Login is selected in Novell Client Configuration Wizard in YaST (System-Wide
Integrated Login) but the login profile is not saved by a user locally, then integrated login fails
as there is no profile to load at the time of login.
If System-Wide Integrated Login is selected and login profile is saved locally by the user, then
integrated login works.
If System-Wide Integrated Login is not explicitly enabled in YaST but login profile is saved
locally by the user, then integrated login works because the default behavior is to start
integrated login.
If System-Wide Integrated Login is disabled explicitly in YaST, then integrated login fails in all
scenarios.
If Integrated Login is enabled as mentioned in the above scenarios, then it will work after a system
reboot as well as after a logout and a login.
Section 3.1.1, "Installing and Enabling CASA," on page 24
Section 3.1.2, "Configuring Integrated Login," on page 24
Section 3.1.3, "Enabling and Disabling Integrated Login," on page 25
"Logging In to the Network" and "Logging Out of a Network Location
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