Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:44:22 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@blinx.net>, Erik Sabowski <airyk@sabowski.dhs.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single pass Message-ID: <XFMail.20010813094422.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <12490000.997622809@vpn86.ece.cmu.edu>
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On 12-Aug-2001 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > Ken Hornstein's Kerberos FAQ might be of interest. Also, there's a > (sketchy) description of setting up a realm in the heimdal info file. > > http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html > > However, Kerberos is almost certainly overkill if all you're looking for is > distributed accounts; also, only the password is managed by Kerberos, > something else must be done to keep the rest of the fields in /etc/passwd > in sync between machines. NIS is the correct answer to this one. So the best idea is NIS+Kerberos.. Anyone got a tute on _that_ combo from hell? :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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