Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:40:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: gdunn@mac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi Server Passwords Message-ID: <20001108184053.H5112@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <00110815343100.09046@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil>; from gdunng@mac.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:48:25PM -1000 References: <00110815343100.09046@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil>
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* Gary Dunn <gdunng@mac.com> [001108 17:33] wrote: > > This is great. Three less databases to manage. But what about the three Unix > password databases? Can I maintain the password database on the centrally > shared Unix server and point the twins to it? Will NIS do this? Should I? > Security issues? NIS is a poor choice for security, afaik it passes passwords via plaintext. You might want to try out pam_smb: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_smb/ ftp://ftp.csn.ul.ie/pub/linux/pam/pam_smb/devel/pam_smb-1.9.8.tar.gz Which may allow you to authenticate your FreeBSD users off a samba or NT server. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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