On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 10:40:23AM +0000, Edward Guldemond wrote: > On 2006-10-15, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com> wrote: > > I must say, though, that I have not tried kerberos. > > Kerberos works fine here. I have a PII 400 serving Kerberos using > Heimdal along with Samba serving SMB and it works fine on my iBook > running OS X 10.4. Set up the DNS records right and run "klogin". It > pulls credentials just fine. > There we have it folks. No excuse not use something better than NFS. Seriously, with anything more than just a handful of people, unless you trust every single one of them to not try and circumvent security, you are asking for trouble. With just NIS or LDAP, it is trivial fore someone to get root on a workstation, assume any UID he/she wants and then run rampant through your NFS shares. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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