[32250] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos Rant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Howard)
Wed Apr 7 05:03:28 2010
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From: Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com>
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:02:54 +0200
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Tim,
> Yes, there has been some work to make a replacement for Active Directory, that issues PAC data in tickets etc. This was developed by a company known as PADL (www.padl.com<http://www.padl.com>). They developed the product as open source and then sold it to Novell, and Novell have
Actually, it wasn't open source, but there were certainly open source components (Kerberos being one of them).
> now added to their own product so that Novell Netware customers can use Windows clients to logon to Netware running on Linux. I am not aware of anybody else who has done the same, but we do plan to do it at some time in the future, as we feel there is a big market for Active Directory on UNIX or Linux.
What, was I too far ahead of the curve? ;-)
The other option, of course, is Samba 4.
cheers,
-- Luke
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