Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - SECURITY GUIDE 17-03-2009 Manual page 70

5.4.1 GDM and KDM
To authenticate a GNOME client machine against an AD server, proceed as follows:
1 Select the domain.
2 Enter your Windows username and press Enter .
3 Enter your Windows password and press Enter .
To authenticate a KDE client machine against an AD server, proceed as follows:
1 Select the domain.
2 Enter your Windows username.
3 Enter your Windows password and press Enter .
If configured to do so, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop creates a user home directory
on the local machine on the first login of each AD authenticated user. This allows you
to benefit from the AD support of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop while still having
a completely capable Linux machine at your disposal.
5.4.2 Console Login
As well as logging in to the AD client machine using a graphical front-end, you can
log in using the text-based console login or even remotely using SSH.
To log in to your AD client from a console, enter DOMAIN\user at the login:
prompt and provide the password.
To remotely log in to your AD client machine using SSH, proceed as follows:
1 At the login prompt, enter:
2 Provide the user's password.
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ssh DOMAIN\\user@hostname
The \ domain and login delimiter is escaped with another \ sign.