On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:37:16AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:53:08AM -0400, Kyle McDonald wrote: > > >> as a Domain Controller? > > > > > >No. > > > > > That's OK. But (liking Solaris as much as I do,) it seems a shame to > > leave Windows as the only system that can be the authoritative source > > for this stuff. :) > > Well, Sun should have made a large investment in directories and network > authentication when it became obviouw that MSFT was doing the same. Or > even immediately post-win2k.
I suppose I should point out that Sun did, actually. Just not in the same combination. Sun invested a great deal in its secure NFS stack and in its directory server. It just didn't invest in a competitor to AD. There were many reasons, no doubt, and I wasn't here at the time, so I can't really bring clarity to the history. Nico -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
