Heimdal KDC, Windows XP and local users

[Victor Sudakov]

Javier Palacios wrote:
> > > And it is extremely easy to tweak the scap code to just create the
> > > user account instead of looking up LDAP to check that user actually
> > > exists.
> >
> > Perhaps it is easy, but anyway it would mean installing third party
> > software to Windows workstations, which I was trying to avoid.

> And you really hope that Microsoft wil support non-microsoft KDC out
> of the box?

They already support it. The only issue is local user/profile creation.

BTW what about Unix? Is there a way to automatically create a local
user if a Kerberos principal successfully authenticates on the box?
Oh well, it is not very useful after all, who in the world needs a
Unix user with the same name and different uid on each box...

> Even the ksetup.exe is not on the base bundle but in support toos.

This seems reasonable. There are a lot of useful utilities in support
tools, however those utilities are not meant for an average user.

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