From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 12 11: 7:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from redbox.venux.net (redbox.venux.net [216.47.238.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDF137B9E9; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mitch@venux.net) Received: from doot2 (usr3-ip134-grr.wmis.net [209.176.193.184]) by redbox.venux.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 58A402E20B; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:54:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <003701bf8c56$86265b40$0300000a@doot.org> From: "Mitch Vincent" To: "Mike" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: Password distribution and authentication Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:09:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm working towards using a central SQL database (probably MySQL) for all authentication -- in fact, everything period.. I'm working on a SQL DNS server, there is a semi broken one at bind.linuxos.net. There isn't an "in a box" solution for this, so far I have : ProFTPD as the FTP daemon, there is a mod_mysql and mod_sqlpw for it that seems to work nicely. Qpopper with a patch to auth from a MySQL database (http://www.netd.co.za/mysql_mail/) And Exim as a MTA (http://www.netd.co.za/mysql_mail/) - it has native support for MySQL :-) RADIUS - There are plenty of MySQLized RADIUS servers, Cistron is one (there are links to others at http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/radius/) I've also toyed with the idea of using the PAM module for RADIUS authentication, nearly everything now has support for PAM authentication. Good luck! -Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike To: Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Password distribution and authentication > Hi everyone! > > Besides using NIS (which is rather an insecure way) for password/group > file distribution around the servers on the network, is there any other > way to accomplish a centralized or distributed password authentication > task? > > Looking forward in hearing your replies! > > Thank you > > Mike > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message