>> To be honest, I have often wondered *why* we support kerberos
>> outside of the uber l33t geek factor. I have not once in a
>> commercial deployment had a business requirement for the
>> beast. LDAP? Now that is a whole other issue :)
>
> Single sign-on in a Windows/AD environment (I'm talking clients on
> windows, servers on linux here - at least in my case). I know several
> people who use it, most just don't post here ;-)
Wouldn't the LDAP auth in 8.2 resolve that?
>
> Now, it would likely be a lot *easier* to do this with GSSAPI than the
> pure kerberos stuff we have now, given that the Windows native APIs
> support GSSAPI compatible stuff, but not the stuff we have now.
Nod.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> //Magnus
>
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