Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:49:46 -0800 From: "Kurt Seifried" <listuser@seifried.org> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Centralized authentication Message-ID: <000901c1ddce$1d8b3b70$1400020a@chaser> References: <874riov1et.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com>
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Use NIS+ (not NIS =). It's probably the least effort to setup (certainly less then say Kerberos). Another alternative is to look at LDAP based solutions, which are getting much easier to setup and manage. Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org A15B BEE5 B391 B9AD B0EF AEB0 AD63 0B4E AD56 E574 http://seifried.org/security/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> To: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 3:43 PM Subject: Centralized authentication > We have a few dozen FreeBSD workstaions and servers and as their > numbers increase managing users and groups via indvidual /etc/passwd > and /etc/group files is getting more and more tiresome. We also have > just a few Linux boxes. > > We aren't a huge site, everybody is in one building on the same > network. > > I was wondering what other sites are using to solve this problem. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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