From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 10:25: 6 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 72EA737B43E for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8DHNdr79522; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:23:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000913130253.03515bf0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:18:40 -0400 To: fran@reyes.somos.net From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Seeking network authentication: NIS? what else? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200009130446.AAA32740@sanson.reyes.somos.net> References: <39BEE4FA.A53284D2@glue.umd.edu> 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message