Derek Martin wrote:
> [thoughtful posting mostly deleted]
>
> My only other question is when the hell is someone gonna fix NIS so that
> it doesn't SUCK?
Yeah, it's a drag to have to keep userids and passwords in sync on
multiple systems.
This is an area I'm pretty ignorant of, but schemes I've heard
of include:
- Kerberos. IBM and probably other Unix vendors seem to like this,
but it's always seemed to me to require a lot of up-front setup
and commitment.
- Windows NT domain login. (Isn't this using some flavor of Kerberos
these days?)
- Radius servers.
- LDAP.
[I know next to NOTHING about the last 2.]
Taking a page from Micro$ofts play book, it would make sense for Linux
to be able to participate fully in NT domains, so you could start
sneaking in Linux machines seamlessly, replacing NT file and print
servers with Samba, for instance. So I do hope the Justice Department
forces MS to reveal ALL of the NT domain server protocols...
-- Jerry Callen
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