From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 12 17:14:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E7637B403 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24118; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:44:20 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <12490000.997622809@vpn86.ece.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:44:22 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Subject: RE: Re[2]: Any way to have multiple machines share a single pass Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , Erik Sabowski , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Gabriel Ambuehl Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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