Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud
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Linux, with add ons, can use GPO as well. Not just as a server (which is built in) but as a client.
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@Dashrender said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:
How do you get unified authentication in Linux?
IIRC Active Directory was in response to *nix based distributions having this ability a decade prior.
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@coliver said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:
@Dashrender said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:
How do you get unified authentication in Linux?
IIRC Active Directory was in response to *nix based distributions having this ability a decade prior.
That's correct. Not just as a general concept, as things like NIS are quite old. Sun released NIS in the early 1980. It was replaced with NIS+ in 1992. LDAP was already popular on Linux by the late 1990s. Even kerberos was already in use on Linux at that time. By the time that Windows did AD in 2000, they were explaining it in terms of Linux to make people understand how it worked. It wasn't just that it was "like" what UNIX had, but that it was LDAP and Kerberos right from the UNIX world, just a Windows version of those exact services.
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@scottalanmiller said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:
@coliver said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:
@Dashrender said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:
How do you get unified authentication in Linux?
IIRC Active Directory was in response to *nix based distributions having this ability a decade prior.
That's correct. Not just as a general concept, as things like NIS are quite old. Sun released NIS in the early 1980. It was replaced with NIS+ in 1992. LDAP was already popular on Linux by the late 1990s. Even kerberos was already in use on Linux at that time. By the time that Windows did AD in 2000, they were explaining it in terms of Linux to make people understand how it worked. It wasn't just that it was "like" what UNIX had, but that it was LDAP and Kerberos right from the UNIX world, just a Windows version of those exact services.
Good to know I have some of my IT history correct. I first learned LDAP on some old Gentoo boxes that my father picked up from the dump.
