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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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