On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 06:29:10PM -0800, Art Fernand wrote (wyy sez): > Gents, > hello, is it possible to not reply to a message and just type in a new subject if the thread is totally different. thanks. > Need your advise. I'm looking for either commercial or > open-source software on linux that centralizes > account/password authentication across multiple > platforms and OS (MS, linux, AIX, etc.). I sifted > through the plug list archives and saw some of you > folks have been working on OpenLDAP but it seems to be > a work in progress. freshmeat.net doesn't seem to have > any projects about it also. Where I can get more > information if openldap has been successful in > implementing this, maybe a good HOWTO resource link? > openLDAP seems to be an appropriate solution. however, it depends on what authentication do you need?
for example, Linux and Solaris both support PAM (pluggable authentication modules) which can use a remote LDAP repository as it's authentication source. you can read up on PAM for more information. for other Unix machines, i am not sure if they do support PAM yet. of course, you can always compile PAM onto these unixes. however, you can also use NIS (which is an older technology and has a number of security issues). another option is to use Kerberos. however, M$ implementation is supposed to be incompatible with the standard Kerberos that everybody else uses. > I've seen BMC Patrol and Control-SA but could not > attest to its reliability and also the price. Other > commercial software I've found is bionetrix but for MS > platform only. Maybe some other enterprise software > that I haven't heard about is available, and any > recommendations would be helpful. > sorry but, i cannot comment on this yet. -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://cersa.admu.edu.ph phone : 63(2)4266001-5925/5904 GPG : http://sysads.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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