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What is "Active Directory provisioning"? Is this just an alternative way to authenticate users with the wiki similar to LDAP?
by qwerqweq 11y ago
What is "Active Directory provisioning"? Is this just an alternative way to authenticate users with the wiki similar to LDAP?
- roel_v 11y agoActive Directory is a whole bunch of stuff build on top of something that looks like LDAP except less sucky, and it lets you do many things from setting permissions to sharing printers and deploying software. It's not something to be installed during a lazy Friday afternoon following a 'AD 101' tutorial though.
- bmir-alum-007 11y agoYup. Basically, apps that do MS-specific LDAP queries to AD or something emulating it (Samba). It's also often useful for apps to be allow admin users to tweak the actual LDAP queries in case they have a custom enterprise-wise schema. Stanford, for example, used AD as the "single source of truth" with another LDAP setup for *NIX. (In addition to a modified version of MIT Krb5 with AFS integrations.)