[PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

[Smith, Cathy]

There used to be dns, ldap, kerberos, nis.  These are open source protocols and not restricted to Microsoft.


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-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-bounces at pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Groman
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 5:16 PM
To: plug at pdxlinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication

Has anyone ever made a 100% UNIX/BSD/Linux network with centralized authentication? Using native protocols not some sort of strange Microsoft AD mesh thing.
I wanted to build a hacker-space for a school and since it would be starting from scratch there's no reason to get locked in to a Microsoft product from the start. Also the Microsoft's protocols are not open source and hard to debug. They never really work well with UNIX like operating systems requiring id/group mapping and such.
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