Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:33:53 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Distributed authentication. Which one? Message-ID: <20051017203353.GF33270@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20051016010251.R90770@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20051012234337.K63956@zoraida.natserv.net> <57416b300510142221r2c3da329o65d54cb0aa04fc73@mail.gmail.com> <20051015133148.P97899@zoraida.natserv.net> <18f601940510151547ka3573f8v2f0633010ad2874f@mail.gmail.com> <20051016010251.R90770@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 01:04:08AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >I would say LDAP, but then I've never used NIS.
>
> The general comment I am seeing in archives is that it is not commonly
> used anymore.
It has some interoperability and security issues. They're solvable, IMO.
For example, most of the security concerns can be addressed with a
combination of transport-mode IPsec and Kerberos and I avoid inter-
operability issues by avoiding weird implementations of NIS ;-)
-T
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office."
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