[Freeipa-devel] Planning for v2: How to deal with kerberos trusts?

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 09:23 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> recently I've been studying Microsoft's active directory, and I have
> to say I am kind of impressed  .. I hope someone is analyzing the work
> they've done :) Things like different kinds of groups, group nesting,
> and uid/gid clashes .. etc, hmm Perhaps the old posix model is showing
> its age now! 

There some key differences indeed, and AD has some neat solutions.
But the fact is that Linux and other Unices are tied to the POSIX
model,a nd that's what we have to deal with.

Simo.

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