[Info-vax] : AUTHORIZE Enhancement

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-11-28 07:11:04 +0000, David Froble said:

> Steve has been lobbying for LDAP (or however it's spelled).  I don't 
> know enough to have an opinion.

Active Directory, Open Directory and such are increasingly ubiquitous 
on even moderate-sized computer networks.

Active Directory and Open Directory already provide distributed 
authentication and LDAP services in many organizations, and OpenVMS can 
tie into LDAP authentication.

DNS services, DHCP, LDAP, TLS, IPv6, etc., are the foundations of 
distributed computing, and the environment OpenVMS must work with.

As part of this migration to LDAP, redesign, rethink and remove the 
utter morass of RMS indexed files underneath authentication, clustering 
and related.

Focus forward.   Stop messing around with SYSUAF, EDT, DECnet and the 
rest of the glorious past.

Give existing folks a path forward, and give new folks good reasons to 
pick and to integrate OpenVMS with their environments.



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