[Pythonmac-SIG] Active Directory authentication on Mac using Python

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sun Aug 14 12:10:51 CEST 2005


On 13-aug-2005, at 19:43, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:

>    You said non-standard kerberos implementation.  I'm wondering
> what's non-standard about it; I am under the impression it was stock
> MIT kerberos.
>
Active Directory uses the kerberos with some non-standard extensions.  
IIRC they use this to stuff authorisation information inside a ticket.

BTW. Active Directory != Open Directory, looking at an OSX system  
won't teach you a lot about Active Directory :-)

>      -wsv
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>
>> That's nice, but since when does the implementation of Active
>> Directory have anything to do with OS X? :)
>>
>> -bob
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2005, at 6:08 AM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>   Non-standard how?  The implementation in OS X is written and
>>> maintained by the folks at M.I.T. Information Systems.
>>>
>>>     -wsv
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The generic way to do the authentication is just to use LDAP, since
>>>> Active Directory is just a jazzed up LDAP database server with a
>>>> non-
>>>> standard Kerberos implementation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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