Look into Centrify or native Win2k3r2 AD posix extensions. Mac/linux/whatever should all be able to be configured natively to authenticate against AD via kerberos kinits, as well as to look their authorization data up in LDAP. On linux, this is achieved through pam_krb5 and nss_ldap, and I have no idea about linux.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey y’all. > > I don’t use Novell, but I’m curious about them. I find the website isn’t > the most enlightening source of information, at least for me, somebody who > knows basically nothing about them. I’d like to know what, and if, people > are using them for, and in what ways my life could be better if only I knew > what I was missing... > > There was a time (over a decade ago), when Novell (Netware) was synonymous > to all the things that are now synonymous with Active Directory. That is – > User management, security, single sign on, etc. But obviously the > cross-platform capabilities of AD are somewhat limited, and I wonder if > there’s a newer implementation of something that would be a suitable > alternative. If you wanted something like AD that works equally well for > Windows, Mac, and Linux (and possibly others) is that a complete unreality? > I am aware of such things as Kerberos and LDAP of course. But using Kerb / > LDAP, you couldn’t for example easily join a Mac or Linux laptop to a > domain, login once, and expect your laptop to continue working even after > you’ve taken it away, outside the network. > > Am I off track? Anyone care to share their experiences? > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
