Quest boosts Unix, Mac integration with Active Directory

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:44

Business IT - Networking

The latest version of Quest Authentication Services provides several benefits for organisations needing to integrate Unix, Linux and Mac OS X systems with Microsoft's Active Directory.

Quest officials claim the latest version of the company's product for integrating Unix, Linux and Mac OS X systems with Microsoft's Active Directory technology provides multiple benefits to administrators.

Unix-specific improvements include the ability to audit, report and alert on users who make changes to critical data; support for two-factor group policy support with hardware and software tokens; a centralised point of identity management that works with any of the most common browsers on major platforms; macro support allowing the use of a single Group Policy Object across multiple systems; and enhanced privileged account management.

The sole Mac-specific change is additional support for Mac OS X Group Policies.

One-time password authentication is now supported across the board.

"Throughout the years, Quest has worked with the community to help with security and compliance needs to bring Unix systems into Active Directory," said Jackson Shaw, Quest's senior director of product management.

"The newest release of Authentication Services introduces the next generation of this technology, and enables the IT community to understand and manage Unix systems in way they never could before," added Shaw.