PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Web Administration Guide

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Supported authentication providers

You can configure local and remote authentication providers to authenticate or deny user access to a cluster.

The following table compares the features that are available with each of the authentication providers that OneFS supports. In the following table, an x indicates that a feature is fully supported by a provider; an asterisk (*) indicates that additional configuration or support from another provider is required.

Table 1. Authentication Provider SpecificationsThe following table compares the features that are available with each of the authentication providers that OneFS supports. In the following table, an x indicates that a feature is fully supported by a provider; an asterisk (*) indicates that additional configuration or support from another provider is required.
Authentication provider	NTLM	Kerberos	User/group management	Netgroups	UNIX properties (RFC 2307)	Windows properties
Active Directory	x	x			*	x
LDAP	*	x		x	x	*
NIS				x	x
Local	x		x		x	x
File	x			x	x
MIT Kerberos		x		*	*	*