Yves Dorfsman wrote: > 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 ?
kerberos is authentication only. LDAP will hold all the stuff you need to have a functional account. At a basic level, I've explained kerberos as a networked /etc/shadow, and LDAP as a networked /etc/passwd. -- -- John E. Jasen ([email protected]) -- "Deserve Victory." -- Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
