Steven Susbauer wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:56 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> 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. > > It is indeed. > > See: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/dirservices/ as well as > http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Networking/Reference/DirectoryServiceFramework/index.html > > > > Both the Directory Service and OpenDirectory server are on their open > source download page and are APSL.
Both those links seem to be about how to access a directory...not about how they use the information from the directories. Definitely nothing about having a system where there is a 'local' vs 'domain' accounts. -- 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
