From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 6 15:46:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01E637B401 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:46:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f96MjbR32720 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:45:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:45:37 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory Message-ID: <20011006184537.B32618@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200110062149.f96LnFj26783@csa.bu.edu> <15295.34963.480878.91865@csa.bu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15295.34963.480878.91865@csa.bu.edu>; from evms@cs.bu.edu on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:41:23PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, frankly, your coordinator or whatever he calls himself, sounds like a d**k, so just use the network anyway, considering his attitude, I doubt he'd be smart enough to notice you doing that anyway.... Zach Around Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:41:23PM -0400, Evan Sarmiento said something to the effect of: > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message