What exaclty does this allow you to do? I am not sure I
understand the purpose. Does it allow you to log into the
domain at login from a MAC OS 10.2 client? Or is to allow
secure logon to the server once you have logged into the
MAC? Thanks.
Hi Deanna!
It's the latter of what you said.
Older Macs use to have a limit of eight characters for a password and the
UAM would allow longer passwords.
Macs would also send their passwords in clear text across the network and
the UAM would scramble them to keep probing eyes from seeing them.
Today's Mac security is much better and can interoperate with Windows'
improving security. Kerberos is one example.
Using the UAM today helps a Windows server identify a Mac connection as a
"Microsoft client", which means it can either enforce certain Microsoft
security policies or allow Macs to use less stringent authentication.
Hope this helps! bill
