On 26 Mar 2005, at 19:25, Craig White wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:09 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 11:31, Craig White wrote:
Has Microsoft released the information needed to make an interoperable version? If they haven't, getting it would be an interesting legal battle, given the antitrust settlement that says they have to share the information needed for interoperability (but not necessarily for free...).---- of course they released it
I suppose it's easier conjecturing than spending a second and googling...
http://www.google.com/search? hl=en&q=Microsoft+Kerberos+documentation&btnG=Google+Search
first 2 links
If you could write a replacement AD service that would interoperate with
all MS clients based on those links, my hat is off to you.--- kerberos - or their implementation isn't really the problem
Yep. Windows AD is much more than Kerberos V: It's a custom Kerberos V KDC plus a custom LDAP server, both sporting multi-master replication, and a very specific custom schema, plus a new SSPI-compatible authentication engine based on Kerberos V, and some more stuff.