Steven Susbauer wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Ryan Dwyer wrote: >>> >>> It doesn't matter how much work is involved. Do you think the >>> Linux/Ubuntu community would be willing to change the way system >>> logons work if it meant bug #1 could be completed? >> >> Let us see. To change the way system logons work would mean changing >> pam, the C library and just about anything that has to do with system >> accounts. You are welcome to try to convince the Ubuntu community to >> maintain a fork of all these essential system libraries and offer some >> form of backwards compatibility to avoid having to also modify who knows >> how many other packages like sendmail, apache, bind, ..., ..., ..., >> everything. Mac OS X, a certified UNIX system as of Snow Leopard, is >> enjoying a measure of success without having to become Windows like. You >> are barking up the wrong tree here. >> > > Note that OS X (that UNIX certified system) has completely changed how > system logons work. User accounts (and a ton of other things) are > managed through the Open Directory service even on the local machine. > The plus of this is it is also highly compatible with external > directory services. It takes three or four clicks of a mouse to > configure the system to use a domain server and authenticate domain > users against a centralized system. Their system is both compatible > with traditional UID/GID, and also allows for separation of local > machine and domain accounts. > > I am not extremely familiar with the intricacies of the OS X Open > Directory system and know that they have put in the work to make it > work well and be compatible. It is not impossible and certainly worth > considering before writing it off. Of course it may be that it is too > much work to implement something similar.
OH? Now this is interesting. I wonder if it is present in Darwin where we can have a look at it. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
