On Sunday 22 May 2011, Abhishek Kumar wrote: > why do you want to use /etc/password. use some enterprise directory > to authenticate against. > > For an enterprise if it is large (or grows to lare enterprise ) > having /etc/password replicated everywhere and in sync would be > calling for trouble. > > use PAM + Openldap for directory and any authentication > server(preferably kerberos or SAML based ) to authenticate. this > would also help in lot of povisoning scenarions.
In very simple terms, (a) I'm not being paid enough to implement enterprise authentication, and (b) the organisation doesn't want it. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
