WindowsIdentity and Non-AD directory services

[Raghu]

If a company has windows machines but the directory services is not active
directory (say novell's eDirectory for whatever reason and users are
authenticated against this non-AD directory services), will the
WindowsIdentity object (obtained through WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent static
method) in any .net application have necessary group memberships available?
Since ldap group implementation in each directory service vendor vary
significantly, does current WindowsIdentity object takes care of every thing
I need to know about domain groups without hitting the directory services
directly?

Raghu/..

 

[Marc Scheuner]

If a company has windows machines but the directory services is not active

directory (say novell's eDirectory for whatever reason and users are
authenticated against this non-AD directory services), will the
WindowsIdentity object (obtained through WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent static
method) in any .net application have necessary group memberships available?

If you have non-Windows users in your LDAP groups, those cannot be
represented by a WindowsIdentity object, obviously. You might get a
GenericIdentity, or even just a LDAP RDN for those users.

Marc