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From: Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu>
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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:41:23 -0400 (EDT)
To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory
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He's unconcerned with Kerberos authentication. He will allow
laptops with Windows* to connect to the network, even
if they do not authenticate with kerberos.

He has given me no particulars, just that it "is a possibility,
and I do not want to risk it."

Thanks,
Evan

Juha Saarinen writes:
 > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Evan Sarmiento wrote:
 > 
 > > How would I go about convincing this enthusiast that FreeBSD
 > > will not somehow interfere with Active Directory?
 > 
 > Considering how Microsoft is promoting AD as Open Standards-compliant,
 > it's hard to see how FreeBSD would "interfere" with AD. The only thing I
 > can think of would be the authentication... Microsoft's Kerberos
 > implentation isn't quite standard, I gather. Has he given you any
 > particulars as to how FreeBSD would molest AD?
 > 
 > Otherwise, AD uses DNS, LDAP (w/ and w/o SSL), x.509, etc.
 > 
 > Try selling it as "implementing AD in a heterogenous client environment is
 > good for your career" perhaps? ;-)
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > 
 > Juha
 > 
 > 

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