[clue-tech] Samba Authentication

[Nate Duehr]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:15 PM, David L. Willson wrote:


> course) for authentication, too...  In fact, I believe that's the
> "preferred, hard as shit, but really manly" way to go.

That one made me almost spit out my coffee.  HA!

Of course, for real pain, add in NIS+ integration and/or Kerberos,  
just for the sadomasochism of it all!

(NIS+ is so wonderful -- not -- that Sun tests people on it heavily  
in their Solaris certification tests, but doesn't even use it in- 
house, from everyone I've ever asked that's ever worked there.   
Kerberos was created by MIT students on crack, apparently. Making it  
both smart and at the same time, absolutely insane to deploy on a  
large scale.  Gotta love MIT.  Both are quite good case studies for  
lack of KISS and "over-engineered".)

LDAP seems tame compared to those two... it's all relative.  ;-)

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Nate Duehr
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