How Linux Beats Windows in ID Management Ease

Amy Kucharik writes "Fed up with Windows systems management? A Linux conversion may be your ticket away from the daily hassles of managing and licensing domain controllers and related software devices. In this tip, Paul Murphy discusses the evolution of LDAP and how using it, along with Linux, can make an administrator's job easier."

Comments

Nonsense, but not for the reason you'd think

[mrRay720]

ID management's biggest problem will never be solved by Linux. Nor will it be solved by Windows.

As long as we have people putting passwords on post-its attached to their screens, as long as we have people clueless enough to fall for even the most simple of social engineering, there's no real thing as a proper ID on a computer system.
In my (amazingly wonderful) opinion, no system deserves the name ID management unless it has a genuinely good chance of doing so. Physical tokens or biometrics (aka built-in physical tokens) are a minimum.

Well, unless you're after the account ID, but I think admins are normally more concerned about the ID of the person using the account.

We need to stop barricading the windows when people are walking merrily through the doors.

Re:How's this different?

[dsginter]

One is Free, the other is easy to use.

Funny?

This is the truth.