Re: Other remote passwd servers?
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out
> there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users
> can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a
> mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question
> for other NIS-like things).
There's DCE, Distributed Computing Environment, from OSF. It is a very
powerful system (so I've read) for tying multi-platform networks together
under one authentication service. Our varsity's about to dive in and use
it. Unfortunately I don't know if there is a Linux client for it. It is
touted as "vendor neutral", and has a fairly impressive list of supported
platforms:
AIX
AT&T GIS
Cray Unicos
.
.
.
Digital Unix
HP-UX
Irix
.
.
.
SCO
and on it goes. It also includes NT, Macintosh and other non-unixes. I'm
really bummed out that Linux is not in this list (but maybe the list I
have is incomplete?). Maybe, just maybe, the SCO version could be
persuaded to operate in Linux via iBCS, but I've no idea what that
entails...
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Richard Shepherd (richards@waikato.ac.nz)
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