[olug] RE: Topic for next meeting

[Sean Edwards]

I am well acquainted with Novell's NDS, and aware of
the Linux client for NDS, but I am more interested in
learning about the OpenSource side of Enterprise
directory implementation.

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com

--- Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
> 
> We, too, remain interested in enterprise-wide
> authentication. Based on
> conversations I've had LDAP comes closest, but
> doesn't stop Windoze users
> from changing their password on their local Windoze
> box, an update which
> fails to flow to LDAP, making things out of sync
> again. (That's 2nd hand
> info. I've never played w/ Windoze authenticating w/
> LDAP.)
> 
> In a nutshell, enterprise authenticaion* remains a
> mystery to me and I'd
> love to see some light shed on it.
> 
> * One solution for Linux + AIX + Solaris + Windoze
> 98/NT/2000/XP
> 
> j
> 
> 
> On 28 Aug 2003, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:05, Daniel Pfile wrote:
> >
> > > Sure, it's sort of simple, if you know your way
> around LDAP,
> > > but how many people do?
> >
> > I'm curious about this because I'm currently
> working on expunging the
> > Windows NT domain authentication model in place on
> my network and
> > replacing it with a Linux / OpenSource solution.
> > If very few people understand LDAP, what are they
> using for "domain
> > wide" authentication? I thought LDAP was pretty
> much the only way in
> > Linux.
> >
> > -- Ryan
> 
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