PowerScale OneFS Supportability and Compatibility Guide

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Authentication providers

The table in this section lists the remote authentication providers compatible with OneFS.

OneFS supports the following remote authentication providers to verify that users attempting to access the cluster are who they claim to be. For information about how to connect OneFS to an authentication provider, see any version specific OneFS Administration Guide which is available for different versions in the OneFS Info Hub.

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 displays the specification for each authentication provider.
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		*	*	*