From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 13:33:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5814137B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:33:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [217.35.47.161] (helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by tungsten.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #6) id 1632EO-00076h-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:33:32 +0000 Received: from [192.168.10.11] (helo=pan.realtime.co.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1632IJ-0000GC-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:37:35 +0000 Received: from waynep by pan.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 1632CX-0006qH-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:31:37 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Centralising Authentication Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com Date: 11 Nov 2001 21:31:36 +0000 Message-ID: <868zdd6ll3.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I am looking to centralise authentication for a group of servers on my network. I have a couple of questions. As far as I can see, my options are Kerberos 4, Kerberos 5 and NIS/YP. Have I missed any out? I want to authenticate logins via ssh, cvs access (over ssh), possibly rsync and pop. Is there one solution that can cover these ? Lastly, some of the machines are at another site and we just connect over the Internet. We have no vpn in place, so passing plain text passwords is not really an option. How badly does this limit my choices ? TIA, -- Wayne Pascoe Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message