Hi all, Forget Halloween which is still a long way off, for now beware of the ides of March... coz big brother M$ is once again upto to its proprietory tricks. In a bizarre enactment of the modus operandi expressed in the "in"famous 1998 halloween documents, it turns out that M$ has taken the Kerberos authentication standard (an IETF standard) and extended it in-house to develop the proprietory "M$-Kerberos". In true M$ style it has "forgotten" to document the change, although it is saying that it may/will document the changes they have made. This can throw a spanner in the works for Samba servers and Win2k desktop machines. Moreover, by implementing this change to the data-authorisation field which used to be left blank in all Kerberos implementations, it looks as if M$ is once again trying to force its "standard" as the de-facto standard. For the complete story checkout the following URL --> http://www.developer.com/news/news1.html Cheers, --Indra. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
