[OpenAFS] LDAP authentication

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:37:09 -0400


S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hmm, I have to read more. Did you mean Samba will act as 
> Kerberos authentication server, and therefore if I have LDAP as 
> Samba authentication backend, I can get OpenAFS to authenticate 
> to Samba?

Samba4 will be able to act as a KDC.  Otherwise you could
just use an Active Directory server or an MIT or Heimdal KDC.
LDAP is a directory service, not an authentication service.

-derek
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