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Date:      Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:33:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
To:        Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Distributed authentication. Which one?
Message-ID:  <20051015133148.P97899@zoraida.natserv.net>
In-Reply-To: <57416b300510142221r2c3da329o65d54cb0aa04fc73@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Peter Clutton wrote:

> Well questions of which one are all a matter of opinion. LDAP is an
> established implementation of the .x500 standard, and the open version
> OpenLDAP can run with a mysql backend. It sounds like it would fulfil
> your needs.

Will take a look.

> Kerberos is an authentication protocol rather than a directory

So Kerberos would be more along the lines of users login in to the 
machines?

> service, and NIS is a simple directory service introduced by Sun.

Between LDAP and NIS which one would you consider to be:
1- More secure
2- Easier to maintain



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