[Info-vax] VSI Fortran X8.5-0002 for OpenVMS x86 Test Release Available

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/1/23 8:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/1/2023 9:34 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> On 3/1/23 8:11 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>>> On 3/1/2023 8:50 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>> Me too.  That and ACME-LDAP, or some other mechanism to authenticate
>>>> against Active Directory.
>>>
>>> Enterprise Directory/X.500?
>>
>> The requirement is that all systems on the network must authenticate
>> against Microsoft Active Directory.  On VMS this means external
>> authentication.  I may be missing something, but how does Enterprise
>> Directory make that possible?
> 
> I believe AD is X.500 compatible, but obviously that does not
> guarantee that X.500 is AD compatible.

Yes, what version or flavor of X.500 the pieces and parts speak to each
other could potentially be a problem.  But the more fundamental problem
is that, as far as I know (which may not be very far) Enterprise
Directory is a server.  What is needed is a client such that logging in
to the VMS system sends the authentication request elsewhere.  Thus the
"external" in the external authentication I mentioned earlier. ACME-LDAP
does this.  Even if Enterprise Directory also does this (and I can't see
how after a few minutes of searching), I'm pretty sure it's an
extra-cost product.  So I think I'll wait for ACME-LDAP, which is
supposedly getting a rewrite from Ada to C.