On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:21:25AM -0500, Alan DeKok wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >   You should use Samba on Unix.  There are really no alternatives.
> >
> > Kerberos?

>   Microsoft does Kerberos?  I thought they just used a protocol eerily
> similar to Kerberos, which didn't inter-operate with the MIT standard
> Kerberos.

Microsoft does Kerberos.  The authentication services are fully interoperable
with MIT.  MS knows how to play their cards when it comes to breaking specs.

The part that isn't interoperable is the authorization data (group
membership listings) that MS chooses to pack inside the Kerberos ticket.
Even though this information is readily available from the LDAP server,
Win2K servers will never look there -- they'll only accept this info if
it comes in the Kerberos ticket.

So it's hard to say that it's not interoperable with MIT Kerberos, because
their service does everything an MIT KDC does; it's just their Kerberized
servers (fileserver, SQL, etc) that expect /more/.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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