From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 19:30:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1198A37B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8D2UDV46292; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:30:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000912222646.03370968@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:30:12 -0400 To: Brandon Fosdick From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Seeking network authentication: NIS? what else? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39BEE4FA.A53284D2@glue.umd.edu> References: <39bed45e.426746809@smtp.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:22 PM 9/12/2000 -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > 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.... > >Is there more info on this somewhere? I heard it might be possible with >kerberos >and pam, but I haven't gotten around to checking on it. The man pages, and also references to the LINUX PAM doc in there should get you everything you need. Even if your application is not pam friendly, and you want to use RADIUS per se, its fairly easy to add radius auth. I did that here with popper before it supported PAM to auth against our multiple radius servers. This way, we only replicate UIDs with * for passwords. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message