Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again
by jimnotgym on Sunday June 24, 2018 @02:10PM
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> Active Directory is just a fancy name for LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS (often in combination with CIFS).
I don't quite agree, Active Directory is an easy to learn and deploy implementation of LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS (often in combination with CIFS) with a friendly GUI interface. It also adds Group Policy, which is less simple to replicate on Linux. Then it adds a huge pool of admins which have been through the vendor supplied training process. I can show people how to create a user and add them to my company defaults in minutes, and not just because they are familiar with Windows, but because they are familiar with the desktop metaphor
I am a keen Linux user, I am typing this on Linux in fact. We have lots of processes running on Linux in fact. But I cannot replace the ease of AD in Linux. And more than that, our ERP client only runs on Windows...
I don't quite agree, Active Directory is an easy to learn and deploy implementation of LDAP, Kerberos, and DNS (often in combination with CIFS) with a friendly GUI interface. It also adds Group Policy, which is less simple to replicate on Linux. Then it adds a huge pool of admins which have been through the vendor supplied training process. I can show people how to create a user and add them to my company defaults in minutes, and not just because they are familiar with Windows, but because they are familiar with the desktop metaphor
I am a keen Linux user, I am typing this on Linux in fact. We have lots of processes running on Linux in fact. But I cannot replace the ease of AD in Linux. And more than that, our ERP client only runs on Windows...