At 03:32 PM 11/22/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>On 22 Nov 2002, Shannon Roddy wrote:
>I would say LDAP with SSL is your best bet.  Kerberos is a pain to
>implement/maintain.  NIS is inherently insecure.  NIS+ is better, but
>still a pain, and i don't think Linux NIS+ support is any good.
>
>See www.padl.com.  They are the guys that maintain the pam_ldap module,
>and have lots of LDAP info in general.  Also i think the Linux LDAP howto
>covers this (using OpenLDAP).  We use eDirectory, but LDAP is LDAP. :)
>On Redhat, use authconfig to set it up once your directory is running.
>It'll be changing some stuff in /etc/nsswitch and /etc/pam.d/system-auth.

Good ideas. Shannon, you want to authenticate your UNIX users against a 
Windows domain? Not the other way around? That will make a difference.


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