[Novalug] November Meeting (Possible) Topics
Jason Kohles
jkohles@palantir.com
Wed Oct 20 08:22:32 EDT 2010
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:52 PM, The Doctor wrote:
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> On 10/18/2010 05:27 PM, Peter Larsen wrote:
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>> An interesting topic *grin*. But be advised that the topic here would
>> cover how to integrate/manage a central repository of users and enable a
>> host to "view" that for authentication purposes. So this is a matter of
>> validating system login information; not web applications.
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> In that case I am definitely interested. I know just enough about LDAP
> to know I'm dangerous and would like to learn more about it.
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>> I think this is a completely separate topic. If I remember right we had
>> an OpenID talk some years ago? Definitely an interesting topic for web
>> application development and web-authorization features.
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> What about authenticating Linux machines against AD?
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I just recently did a whole lot of work on that subject... We looked at Likewise,
Samba and a couple of other solutions, and in the end settled on straight
LDAP/Kerberos. I could probably talk quite a bit about that topic... :)
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Jason Kohles, RHCA
Palantir Technologies | Forward Deployed Engineer
jkohles@palantir.com | 703.957.5784
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