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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:56AM (#26790556)
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Active Directory is Microsoft's proprietary tech that is a modification of the Kerberos standard, reimplemented most notably in Samba, but client solutions (open and proprietary) also exist.

Group permissions predate AD by decades, PAM by a few years. SSO in today's form is a web phenomenon, so a web-oriented solution makes more sense, and there is a lot of work being done in this direction.

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Re:Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited a... by throwaway0xa on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:31PM (#26801946)
>Active Directory is Microsoft's proprietary tech that is a modification of the Kerberos standard

And LDAP, and some DNS, and certs, etc. It's not just Kerberos; you're sounding ignorant here.

>Group permissions predate AD by decades

No one said otherwise, but it goes beyond basic POSIX groups with things like nested groups, delegated group permissions, etc.

>SSO in today's form is a web phenomenon

So is AD's...

Basically, you're proving my point.

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