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Go Blue LDAP + Kerberos == Microsoft Active Directory This was standard at U of M before the latter was invented. I'm guessing someone from AA invented it?
by jakupovic 3y ago
Go Blue
LDAP + Kerberos == Microsoft Active Directory
This was standard at U of M before the latter was invented. I'm guessing someone from AA invented it?
- tptacek 3y agoKerb was an Athena thing (an interesting project!) at MIT.
- cryptonector 3y agoYes, but Microsoft really did do the missing integration of Kerberos V5 into the rest of the system (LDAP and the login system). MSFT started this work ("NT5") in 1995, just a bare few years after MIT published the first implementation of Kerberos V5 (though Kerberos IV came half a decade earlier still). That took MSFT ~5 years to complete, and they shipped this as Windows 2000. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (RIP), completely failed to respond appropriately to that, and Active Directory ate Sun DS's lunch eventually.
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- jakupovic 3y agoLDAP, UofM, is better X.500. MIT and other schools were all connected over Kerberos from before, DoD? Hence the connection.
- dadrian 3y agoLDAP is a UofM innovation. Tim Howes, a Peter Honeyman student, wrote his dissertation about it, and then went on to found Loudcloud with Ben Horowitz.
- dadrian 3y agoUofM popularized the use of Kerberos in academic settings. IIRC, Dug Song added support for Kerberos to SSH, and some other people in Honeyman's group (CITI) connected Kerberos to Andrew File System (AFS). But we'd have to ask honey to know for sure.