Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN)

Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN)

Posted Mar 28, 2007 0:26 UTC (Wed) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)
In reply to: Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN) by drag
Parent article: Bake-Off: 4 Linux Desktops Tackle The Enterprise (CRN)

"90% of everybody uses Windows somewere and SAMBA is a requirement to support that, so I don't have any problem with using it for a proper domain controller either."

I'm the other 10% and it seems to me that the functionality of 'general authentication' and 'accessing windows machines' should be separate/separable.

I do agree that 'normal users' can't cope with different passwords for different funcitons on their desktops. They want the same password to work whenever a dialog pops up asking for it. They have no understanding of the difference between the dialog to access the keyring on their machine and the one to access an ftp mount. Even user/root passwords are a problem, which is why the ubuntu 'sudo for everything' approach works well - you always use your password, not sometimes use yours and sometimes use roots.

I have never managed to understand LDAP or PAM, and have never tried to understand kerberos, so thanx for the above idiots guide to how some of this works in practice.

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