A proposal for an MIT KDC for Samba4
Michael Ströder
michael at stroeder.com
Tue Oct 13 00:45:19 MDT 2009
Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>
> I agree exactly that Linux always lacked a robust identity management
> system - something like Active Directory for Linux. There were attempts
> to achieve this with just a Directory server (I remember the Sun's
> iPlanet DS) and I always thought that this is no match to AD.
>
> I believe AD does it a right and quite transparently
Neither AD nor any other directory server is a what one commonly understands
to be an identity management system. Also Samba4 itself won't be one. They are
all just directory and authentication services for networked operating systems.
Ciao, Michael.
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