[ILUG] Active Directory with Ubuntu?

paul at clubi.ie paul at clubi.ie
Wed Aug 8 17:42:42 IST 2007


On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Michael Watterson wrote:

> David Dorgan wrote:

>> Errr???? Active directory is mainly made up of three protocols, dns,
>> ldap and kerberos, how you wish to use those with a security model you
>> have is down to company/site implementation. There is nothing
>> inherently wrong with active directory.

Uhm, what about DNS being an old-style 'trusted' protocol (i.e. 
insecure).

Any security protocol which bootstraps through DNS is insecure.. 
Having to configure IP addresses everywhere for your Krb5 and LDAP 
servers is quite annoying.

regards,
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