November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 27m
English
Giving a user multiple user accounts on different computers can cause problems. For instance, if each computer in a network has its own authentication database, a user might have to remember a different password for each computer. Even if you assign the user the same password on every computer, the information can become inconsistent over time, because the user may change a password in one location but forget to do so in another. You can solve this problem by using a single source of identification and authentication information.
Directory services provide this central repository for information about the computers, applications, and users in an organization. With directory services, you can maintain consistent ...
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