Comment NDS for any unix (Score 2) 62
I am very excited to see this product... Has any one used the port for Solaris. It was released some time ago, but only for the Sparc platform, because it uses PAM. I have been told that the proof of concept was developed on linux, so I am slightly dismayed that it hasn't been released by now... since Novell's site said by Q2!
Outside of large scale user management, which by no means is trivial, what can NDS offer for *NIX? Novell's idea of authentication is very different from the traditional idea.... authenticate once and then you've got access to whatever you have rights to. I am interested in what functionality NDS can provide in an environment which traditionally has required authentication for each and every connection.... The prospect of kicking off multiple shells/ftp connections/etc and only having to authenticate once would be a interesting thing to implement...
Outside of large scale user management, which by no means is trivial, what can NDS offer for *NIX? Novell's idea of authentication is very different from the traditional idea.... authenticate once and then you've got access to whatever you have rights to. I am interested in what functionality NDS can provide in an environment which traditionally has required authentication for each and every connection.... The prospect of kicking off multiple shells/ftp connections/etc and only having to authenticate once would be a interesting thing to implement...
