{"id":1018,"date":"2007-07-31T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/a7feefc8e5c6dba8fa1774dc65d967a5"},"modified":"2007-07-31T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T18:40:47","slug":"using-active-directory-for-heterogeneous-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Using Active Directory for heterogeneous authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's an interesting idea - as an alternative to running multiple different LDAP servers for your Linux authentication, why not just use <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/linuxtoday.com\/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-07-31-011-35-OS-MS-SV\">Windows Active Directory instead?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is something I've actually written about, and proposed before. If you already have a Windows Active Directory instance on your network (and many companies also Linux and Unix already will), why not take advantage of the directory service offered by AD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=Uq4J0j\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=Uq4J0j\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/139304078\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting idea &#8211; as an alternative to running multiple different LDAP servers for your Linux authentication, why not just use <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/linuxtoday.com\/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-07-31-011-35-OS-MS-SV\">Windows Active Directory instead?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is something I&#8217;ve actually written about, and proposed before. If you already have a Windows Active Directory instance on your network (and many companies also Linux and Unix already will), why not take advantage of the directory service offered by AD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=Uq4J0j\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=Uq4J0j\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/139304078\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}