Kevin, You might find useful suggestions and emails from the webappsec (http://www.securityfocus.com/subscribe?listname=107) mailing list.
One thread in particular that we discussed was regarding authentication and authorization. This speaks more to web app authentication, but the issues of authenticating over a network still apply. You might find some of this useful: http://lists.virus.org/webappsec-0309/msg00149.html Cheers, Sasha > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Williams > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 10:28 AM > To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group > Subject: [PDXLUG] authentication mechanisms > > > 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, > > Kevin Williams > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
