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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:14:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      <mike@seidata.com>
To:        Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com>
Cc:        GVB <gvbmail@tns.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RADIUS Solutions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902251713040.17464-100000@ns1.seidata.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990225123427.C10052@kublai.com>

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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Brian Cully wrote:

> Not at all. The provisioning system pushes out new password databases
> every four hours, and those databases are used in the majority of
[snip]

Thanks for the explanation, I figured I was misunderstanding
something.

> the cases. However, we wanted instant provisioning as well, so when
> we don't find an account in our local password database, we check
> the provisioning system directly. This means that we only rarely
> hit the network for account validation, and if the provisioning
> system is down the only thing that fails is new account login.

This sounds like a viable alternative...

Out of curiosity, however, has anyone done something similar by
actually using NIS?  I'd be interested in hearing any success or
horror stories.

--
 Mike Hoskins
 Systems/Network Administrator
 SEI Data Network Services, Inc.
 http://www.seidata.com
 
 "In a world where an admin is rendered useless when the ball in his
 mouse has been taken out, its good to know that I know UNIX."
                                                -- toaster.sun4c.net
 



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