Javier Palacios wrote: > > BTW what about Unix? Is there a way to automatically create a local > > user if a Kerberos principal successfully authenticates on the box? > > Oh well, it is not very useful after all, who in the world needs a > > Unix user with the same name and different uid on each box...
> You know about NIS, so you know that you may have he same uid in > different boxes. Sure. But this again means the toil of maintaining two databases: the NIS map and the KDC database. > And youger people who never heard about NIS do know > about nss-ldap. And again, why would we want two databases: LDAP and Kerberos? > And pam_mkhomedir cares about "local profile" creation. Oh yes, I use it on NIS clients. It is much better for my purposes than NFS-mounted homes. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vas.tomsk.ru/ ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
