Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:21:46 -0700 From: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD ISP list <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Distributed authentication. Which one? Message-ID: <57416b300510142221r2c3da329o65d54cb0aa04fc73@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051012234337.K63956@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20051012234337.K63956@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On 10/14/05, Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> wrote: > I inherited a number of machines and now have to deal with maintaining a > small set of users accros 20 machines. > Currently using MySQL accross different machines, but not shared. Would > like to have a single way to authenticate all email users accross all > machines. > > Preferably a distributed system which can run on top of PostgreSQL. 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. Kerberos is an authentication protocol rather than a directory service, and NIS is a simple directory service introduced by Sun. Hope that helps!
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