Kerberos Rant

[Tom Medhurst]

Thanks for your input Luke,

Samba is not an option at present as they are still in Alpha and can not be
supported in an Enterprise environment. I have tried it and certain things
(like password resetting) cause all kinds of issues.

Samba 3 file and printer sharing is a *must* in a homeogenous environment;
but I fear I will have a looooong wait before the rest is ready to use. :(

You're right though; their design fits my requirements perfectly!

Thanks,
Tom


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Luke Howard <lukeh at padl.com> wrote:

> Tim,
>
> > Yes, there has been some work to make a replacement for Active Directory,
> that issues PAC data in tickets etc. This was developed by a company known
> as PADL (www.padl.com<http://www.padl.com>). They developed the product as
> open source and then sold it to Novell, and Novell have
>
> Actually, it wasn't open source, but there were certainly open source
> components (Kerberos being one of them).
>
> > now added to their own product so that Novell Netware customers can use
> Windows clients to logon to Netware running on Linux. I am not aware of
> anybody else who has done the same, but we do plan to do it at some time in
> the future, as we feel there is a big market for Active Directory on UNIX or
> Linux.
>
> What, was I too far ahead of the curve? ;-)
>
> The other option, of course, is Samba 4.
>
> cheers,
>
> -- Luke