Re: Centralized user-database: LDAP vs. KerberosV5 vs. AFS

2002-10-01 Thread D. Joe Anderson
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:20:02AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: I don't know about AFS (what is it?) see http://www.openafs.org --Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Centralized user-database: LDAP vs. KerberosV5 vs. AFS

2002-09-26 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I try to evaluate wich is THE user database and login system. I read many docs and tried it for myself. I ask here for your thoughts about that. First some of mine: LDAP: This is deffinitly a cool method. Its very simple and very secure due its high SSL encryption. And through the

Re: Centralized user-database: LDAP vs. KerberosV5 vs. AFS

2002-09-26 Thread David Z Maze
Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LDAP: This is deffinitly a cool method. Its very simple and very secure due its high SSL encryption. And through the possibility of NSS_LDAP virtually every application will automatically support that and due the nature of LDAP you are able to