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> References: <20051012234337.K63956@zoraida.natserv.net> <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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