On 5/3/06, Chiu, PCM (Peter) <P.C.M.Chiu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there, Not sure if this is the right forum to pose some questions about authentication. Please redirect me if not. I would like to know what people's views are regarding the use of LDAP or/and Active Directory for authentication on a group of (160) mostly Linux based servers mixed with a handful of XP machines.
Active Directory is a Captive Directory . You put it in your network and one by one you will have to move every single service of yours to M$ stuff from Redmond.Go for any other LDAP server , like Redhat Directory Server or OpenLDAP, and you can abide by open standards . M$ AD supports LDAP but no custom schema can be added to it AFAIK.You will have to adjust your requirements every time to what Microsoft provides and that would mean more licenses from M$,like say you want to have a mail server , Intranet etc to authenticate from the LDAP/AD and you will have to end up buying Exchange ,SharePoint etc . In particular, I would like to know
a. how reliable these servers are on Linux,
Reliability of what - LDAP authentication or in general ? b. how flexible to allow new clients to be added,
c. how easy for users to change their passwords and get populated across, and d. if it allows file sharing over NFS or samba.
For this the above three I suppose you might better go ahead with a Samba PDC with LDAP backend. -- Thanks and Regards Nabeel Moidu System Administrator OnMobile System Inc Bangalore, India http://nmkuttiady.blogspot.com If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
