Comments on: Novell and Microsoft Inseparable in the Press http://techrights.org/2008/11/07/msft-novl-pressed-together/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2008/11/07/msft-novl-pressed-together/comment-page-1/#comment-34099 Needs Sunlight Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:32:49 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/07/msft-novl-pressed-together/#comment-34099 In the States, I get the impression that since signing the deal, Novell only acts to migrate its remaining Netware base over to MS Windows. That is, those that are too stupid or incompetent to avoid getting roped in. The others are finding Samba: http://de3.samba.org/samba/ RHEL (and thus also CentOS) also have some really good identity management packages. However, all you will find centers around Kerberos and OpenLDAP, even imitations like MS AD do that, so it may also be worth it to just take the few extra steps needed to learn Kerberos V and OpenLDAP straight up. In the States, I get the impression that since signing the deal, Novell only acts to migrate its remaining Netware base over to MS Windows. That is, those that are too stupid or incompetent to avoid getting roped in. The others are finding Samba:
http://de3.samba.org/samba/

RHEL (and thus also CentOS) also have some really good identity management packages. However, all you will find centers around Kerberos and OpenLDAP, even imitations like MS AD do that, so it may also be worth it to just take the few extra steps needed to learn Kerberos V and OpenLDAP straight up.

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