From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 11:12:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E298A37B960; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA29643; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:11:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:11:28 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mike Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password distribution and authentication Message-ID: <20000312141128.A28974@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from mikey@kappaisle.com on Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:02:36PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:02:36PM -0500, Mike wrote: > 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! Kerberos. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message