Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:57:10 +1000 (Australia/ACT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: nectar@FreeBSD.ORG (Jacques A. Vidrine) Cc: benjamin@macguire.net (Benjamin Krueger), klik@unstable.org (klik), rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand), freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Centralized authentication Message-ID: <200204091457.AAA10164@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020409144158.GX19961@madman.nectar.cc> from "Jacques A. Vidrine" at Apr 09, 2002 09:41:58 AM
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In some mail from Jacques A. Vidrine, sie said: > > Yes, Kerberos does `blow away' many authentication systems. However, > the poster's subject --- ``Centralized authentication'' --- doesn't > really describe what he needs. In addition to authentication, he > needs authorization and directory services, which Kerberos does not > provide. i.e. there is no Kerberos mechanism with which to distribute > the contents of /etc/passwd and /etc/group. You can use NIS for this or when someone gets around to writing an LDAP extension for nsswitch.conf, you could use that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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