From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 16:17:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from outland.cyberwar.com (outland.cyberwar.com [208.17.174.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C581B37B43C for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarkky@cyberwar.com) Received: from localhost (anarkky@localhost) by outland.cyberwar.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3KNHXP52189 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:17:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:17:33 -0400 (EDT) From: shivak To: Subject: backend authentication scheme 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 hey all, please cc me as I am not subscribed. I've been playing around with kerberos for a while, and for my purposes I believe it is overkill. I'm looking for an authentication backend which will provide centralized and a hopefully secure database of users. Of course, it would require server support, but I do not want to make changes to the client programs. Ideally it would also provide an ACL-like system (i.e. this user can log onto the mail server and the file server, but not the print server). I was looking at OpenLDAP but discovered various security flaws (ldap is the wrong software for this). Is a regular db like postgres, mysql, or even berkeley any good for my situation? thanks -- shiva To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message