[Gllug] LDAP and Kerberos

[Dani Pardo]

	Hi, Kerberos has always been a little mistery for me and I'm sure 
people in the list will clarify me a few issues.
  	Basically, I've used LDAP to store users/groups etc.. I can integrate 
LDAP with Unix/Linux with pam-ldap.
	I can also integrate with samba with samba's ldap backend. When adding 
the samba layer to support windows users, the accounts get some LDAP 
attributes added (i.e sambaSID).
	I can also use ssl to transport the LDAP queries and responses, right?
	The question is.. where Kerberos fits in all this stuff? Why should I 
need it?
	Its said that the Active Directory is a kind of LDAP directory with a 
Kerberos mutation :). Shouldn't the LDAP part be enough? I don't get the 
point :)

	
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Dani Pardo, dani at enplater.com
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