Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> writes:

> Richard Chycoski wrote:
> 
> 
> > AD is solid, scalable, and well supported. There *are* some gotchas if 
> > you are looking for 100% LDAP compatibility, but for authc/authz (login, 
> > groups, etc.) nothing else performs quite as well. (I do hope that Open 
> > LDAP catches up!)
> 
> What is the advantage of going ldap against AD vs. using kerberos ?

OpenLDAP/kerberos  works swimmingly on Linux and Mac, and has 
cheap failover options;  I've not gotten a non-AD LDAP/kerberos 
type system working to auth windows clients, so I guess the advantage 
of AD is that you can use it on windows clients as well as Linux
clients.  


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