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A Standardized Open Source Network Authentication

Posted by Hemos on from the building-it-into-the-operating-system dept.

JigSaw writes "The open source community has mastered many challenges and has been successful in numerous areas. However, there is one glaring weakness that needs to be remedied. Without progress in this area, open source in the enterprise will always play second fiddle to Microsoft, Novell, and other corporate computing entities."

2 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dumb question by dcowart · · Score: 2, Informative

    PAM is for sorting/utilizing multiple local authentication & authorization schemes. The article is refering to a server-side application that has all of the authorization and authentication information stored on it(and even more info, groups, printers, servers, services, etc). The OpenDAS would allow people to setup directory and group info independant of local machines, and this information would be used enterprise wide. OpenDAS is a really good idea and working in the enterprise for several years now, I realize it is a very much needed feature of linux.

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  2. Re:Dumb question by noselasd · · Score: 3, Informative

    >OpenDAS is a really good idea and working in the enterprise for several
    >years now, I realize it is a very much needed feature of linux.
    It is. And it already works nice. I've got an OpenLDAP and a MIT kerberos server working nicely together. It almost sounds like there
    is no such thing yet by your post ;)