Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:30:11 +0100 From: Nagilum <freebsd@nagilum.org> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Authentication with auto replication Message-ID: <441468B3.4090307@nagilum.org> In-Reply-To: <200603070852.k278qxag067840@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200603070852.k278qxag067840@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system that needs user authentication. > > Right now I am using NIS to share the users password between all > the machines that need it: one machine is the primary server, > others clients are also running a secondary server: so would a > machine get isolated, it could still do authentication with the > secondary server that it is running. This is all smooth and > transparent, files replication is done automatically. > > I am considering moving away from NIS (because its lack of > security). Radius could do the trick, I can run several radius > servers. But then I need to manually synchronize the data between > the various radius servers. > > Does it exists another authentication system that would do the > automatic data replication like NIS does? I'm not entirely sure but I think ldap should do the trick (pam_ldap + nss_ldap). Good luck, Nagilum. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEFGiyAKWN2UY+sLwRA901AJ0a0pqCZ9+Pv82Z04VW4pCbQfthRQCgu5eW tr1J3JMd3mv9F9ddxFYs/Dc= =2YiR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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