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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:13:08 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Authentication...
Message-ID:  <20020219161308.GA28672@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <DC32C8CEB3F8D311B6B5009027DE5AD503D20867@stlmail.dra.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:48:51AM -0600, Eric Six wrote:
> 
> Just to pick the brains of the people on this list, what are your
> recommendations for setting up user authentication.. 
> 
> Here is what I would like to do.. I have a handful of nix boxes...freebsd,
> linux, tru64, and solaris8. I would like to setup authentication between all
> of them so that my users can have a single login that they can get access to
> all the boxes.
> 
> What do you recommend? Kerberos.. NIS.. anything else?
> 
I know squat about tru64, but NIS will work with all the others.
As to whether I would recommend it is another questions :)
You may well want to consider using NSCD (name service cache daemon)
in conjunction with this.

-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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