From owner-freebsd-security Thu Apr 11 17:57:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from xela.oopz.com (xela.oopz.com [209.20.244.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 445C037B405 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: RE: Centralized authentication MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:57:52 -0700 Message-ID: content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Centralized authentication Thread-Index: AcHhbUr3s+p45eDTSAqBNFul/bCaNgAT0UDQ From: "Noah Davidson" To: Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know with linux you can authenicate via mysql with some small changes = to libnss library. We want to use mysql for the basis of authenticating = for many services. Does anyone have any experience or could point me in = the right direction with such a environment. Thanks Noah -----Original Message----- From: Roger Marquis [mailto:marquis@roble.com] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:26 AM To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Centralized authentication faSty wrote: >I dont see any NIS or NIS+ on handbook. I tried setup the NIS+ >and I am not experience with these feature. anyone can point >where the HOWTO NIS or NIS+? Try a web search (via Google or any other search engine). I found several good links from a query using "nis" and "howto". There's also 'man -k yp' or, more specifically `man -k yp|grep ^yp'. `man ypinit` might be a good place to start. --=20 Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ 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