There used to be dns, ldap, kerberos, nis. These are open source protocols and not restricted to Microsoft.
-- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax: 509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -----Original Message----- From: plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Groman Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 5:16 PM To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: [PLUG] Linux centralized authentication Has anyone ever made a 100% UNIX/BSD/Linux network with centralized authentication? Using native protocols not some sort of strange Microsoft AD mesh thing. I wanted to build a hacker-space for a school and since it would be starting from scratch there's no reason to get locked in to a Microsoft product from the start. Also the Microsoft's protocols are not open source and hard to debug. They never really work well with UNIX like operating systems requiring id/group mapping and such. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
