On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 10:27, Kevin Williams wrote: > All, > > I'm in the process of improving my Linux administration skills (well > actually create them) and am trying to understand the different > authentication mechanisms that are available (kerberos, standard UNIX, > LDAP, PAM, SASL, shadow passwords, etc...), when to implement these > different mechanisms, and what their advantages/disadvantages are. Does > anyone have any recommendations for where to start in this learning > process (books, links, etc...)? > > My goal is the following: Have a server that hosts authentication > information for both windows and linux clients. This authentication > information would be used for both client computer login (act as a > windows domain) and email (IMAP and SMTP). > > Thanks in advance, >
You will probably end up with LDAP, Kerberos and Samba. That will work with pretty much everything. However, it can be diffucult to setup. You can start with "Replacing NIS with Kerberos and LDAP". Then there are documents about integrating your Samba 3 domain into LDAP and Kerb. That is how I would approach it. thanks, joshua http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/krbldap/ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
