Re: About Centralizing Passwords
hi ya benjamin...
what kind of authentification are oyu trying to do ??
- user to get shell account on the server...
- a win98/NT user to get to the linux resources...
- a linux user that can get to other unix/linux resources
users that once authenticated can get emails....
/var/spool/mail problem...
on the mail server issue...
-
you probably do NOT want (insecure) mail servers to be used
the same way as normal home/file servers
users that once authentifcated can get to their home dirs
from any server anywhere
windows users that can get to unix resources like printing
to the printers or unix users that can print to printers
connected to winnt
NIS is useful for sharing files amongst machines...
but i do NOT use NIS...i just automounters and mount the
needed directories from which ever server they logged in at
as far as one machine that has passwd authentification...
i tend to dislike it... and rather do some work and cut and paste
passwd files...( via scripts ..hopefully doing it securely )
and one day..guess i should go learn what pam does...
in detail...
have fun linuxing
alvin
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Benjamin Hudgens wrote:
> I asked this yesterday and got a very limited response so I wanted to
> explain myself further.
>
> Is there a client/server protocol that supports centralizing password
> AND session information other than NIS. If I'm not mistaken, NIS
> requires that you STILL edit the password file and specify user dirs..
> etc. Perhaps I'm reading this wrong..
>
> Regardless, what I'm really needing is some protocal that will pass
> session data. So basically I want all my client servers to 'look' at a
> master server's password file to authenticate it's users. This includes
> default shell, home dir, etc..
>
> I'm sure some of you have set up NIS successfully, so maybe you might
> point me in the right direction. If NIS does this, that would be
> great.. I can use radius for the password data and NIS for the session
> data.. If NIS doesn't, I'm SOL.
>
> SOMEONE has to have done this? Am I asking in the wrong place?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Benjamin
>
>
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