Heimdal KDC, Windows XP and local users

[Victor Sudakov]

Javier Palacios wrote:
> > I have configured Windows XP to use a Heimdal KDC for user authentication.
> > All existing Windows users can authenticate against the KDC, user
> > mapping is "ksetup /mapuser * *".
> >
> > However, Windows does not create a new local user with the same name
> > as the Kerberos princical I try to authenticate as.

> If you have users defined on LDAP, maybe the s+c Authentication
> Package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc-ap/) might help you. And
> if your valid users are not available anywhere, it is not hard to
> modify to drop the LDAP lookups and simply create a local account.

Thank you for the link, however LDAP seems superfluous for my purpose.
The goal was to maintain the user database in just one place, and
Kerberos + LDAP mean two places.

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