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You don't need Windows to use Active Directory.
by chopraaa 6y ago
You don't need Windows to use Active Directory.
- neverartful 6y agoOh? Please elaborate. I always assumed Active Directory = Windows.
- ta17711771 6y agoDoesn't AWS have it as a service? Possibly also an OSS project?
- closeparen 6y agoDecently common to have a cloud AD instance for your internal “users table” even if all the use cases are web/Mac/Linux.
- timw4mail 6y agoActive Directory is a Microsoft product, which, last I knew, only runs on Windows. Active Directory implements LDAP, and there are serveral other LDAP implementations. Other OSes can use Active Directory as an LDAP server, sure.