Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:18:40 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: fran@reyes.somos.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seeking network authentication: NIS? what else? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000913130253.03515bf0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200009130446.AAA32740@sanson.reyes.somos.net> References: <39BEE4FA.A53284D2@glue.umd.edu>
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At 12:15 AM 9/13/00 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>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.
man radius.conf, man -k pam
> >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.
Different. NIS provides password and userid sync. PAM allows you to choose
what sort of authentication you want to use. Its quite a bit more involved
than can be explained in a quick email. ORA has a good book on NIS you
might want to peruse in your local bookstore. There are a couple of
Kerberos as well.
---Mike
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