On 22/06/11 11:23 -0400, Will Dennis wrote:
From my vantage point as a “Windows guy” (I do also use and appreciate Linux, but not really a hard-core Linux admin), this looks like “Active Directory for Linux”… Am I correct in this analysis? If not, can anyone help me understand this? We still are using NIS for Linux auth, this looks like it may be an interesting alternative…
Well, to be fair, Active Directory looks a lot like "LDAP and Kerberos for Windows" :) But yes, IPA takes combines MIT Kerberos, 389 Directory Server and Dogtag PKI into a single product with a very nice command line and web UI. NIS should be replaced with extreme prejudice at this point. LDAP or LDAP+Kerberos are the usual replacements to NIS. IPA makes life easy for this. IPA also gives you multi-master kerberos replication, which is something you do not get with a straight kerberos implementation. Did I mention I really like the product :) Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
