I would say 90% of the shops I go to, even big *nix environments, are using AD or migrating to AD as their LDAP. Some of the big shops have a mixed LDAP (SunOne and AD), but AD seems to be winning out.
Michael Ewan wrote: > Mike Connors wrote: > >> I seem to see in many Linux Sys Admin job postings a requirement for AD >> experience. Is this is a case where >> you have Linux/Unix servers but run MS Win on the desktop and the MS Win >> clients don't play well w. OpenLDAP and/or NIS? >> >> Am I incorrect in my perception that AD has pretty much taken over Dir >> Services except for shops that are all Solaris, Novell, or old-school >> Unix purists who still use NIS? >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> >> > Pretty much. A mixed OS shop, and there are very few that aren't > anymore, the path of least resistance is a Windows server > infrastructure. With single sign on products, and the availability of > linux authentication software such as Quest Authentication Services > (used to be Vintela) that entirely replaces naming services on the Linux > systems with AD hooks. > There are many business drivers for doing it that way, not that I'm > advocating it, but it is just easier to manage for a business, and you > will get all the users crying about having to remember too many > passwords. ;-) > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
