Re: Active Directory?

> Captive Directory uses LDAP attributes to describe users and groups in a
> very different way to the POSIX attributes that Directory Administrator
> uses.
> 
> For example the logon name for a user is sAMAccountName in AD and uid in
> DA
> 
> A users password is unicodePwd in AD and userPassword in DA
> 
> Some attributes are common (mail, o, title) but the important ones are
> very different.
> 
> I'd say DA might work if you ripped out the POSIX attributes and replace
> them with AD ones in the source code and recompiled but it would be more
> problems then it is worth. You'd have to include instructions for
> Windows authentication, Access Control Lists etc

Oh, okay.  So, rather than show the raw LDAP entries like some other 
programs do, Directory Administrator interprets it for you based on the 
assumption that it contains POSIX info?

P.S. Please don't cc me on replies.  I read the list.





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