From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 21:56:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F06D37B43C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 21:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA32740; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:46:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200009130446.AAA32740@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Brandon Fosdick" , "Mike Tancsa" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:15:12 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <39BEE4FA.A53284D2@glue.umd.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Seeking network authentication: NIS? what else? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 22:22:50 -0400, Brandon Fosdick wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: >> >> RADIUS via PAM is another option depending on what you want to do.... Just checked the ports and the Radius client description was not very inviting: scant documentation. Recommended to experts only. >I heard it might be possible with kerberos and pam, >-Brandon Since I am new to all these I looked up PAM at dictionary.com and they mention that PAM can be used with Kerberos. How do these compare to NIS? I have seen some docs on NIS and I was hoping for something simpler, but for the little I have seen it doesn't seem so bad after all. What does Kerberos does by itself and why is PAM needed? Looking at Kerberos info on the web seems like it should be all that is needed for network authentication. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message