From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 11: 0:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from greencreek.kappaisle.com (24.65.68.249.on.wave.home.com [24.65.68.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5702E37BDF9; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikey@kappaisle.com) Received: from localhost (mikey@localhost) by greencreek.kappaisle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08220; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:02:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikey@kappaisle.com) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:02:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mike To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Password distribution and authentication Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-questions" in the body of the message