Heimdal KDC, Windows XP and local users

[Victor Sudakov]

Javier Palacios wrote:
> > 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...

> You know about NIS, so you know that you may have he same uid in
> different boxes. 

Sure. But this again means the toil of maintaining two databases: the
NIS map and the KDC database. 

> And youger people who never heard about NIS do know
> about nss-ldap. 

And again, why would we want two databases: LDAP and Kerberos?

> And pam_mkhomedir cares about "local profile" creation.

Oh yes, I use it on NIS clients.
It is much better for my purposes than NFS-mounted homes.

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