From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 18:14: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA7A37B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e8D1CXr17669; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:12:34 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: fran@reyes.somos.net (Francisco Reyes) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking network authentication: NIS? what else? Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:12:33 GMT Message-ID: <39bed45e.426746809@smtp.sentex.ca> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Sep 2000 11:30:18 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >My home and work FreeBSD networks are growing and I need to find a better >way to keep track of users than creating accounts on each box. > >At work I may go with NIS because we also have Solaris. For home I am >seeking whichever is the easiest method to do network authentication. RADIUS via PAM is another option depending on what you want to do.... ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message