Re: Distributed authentication. Which one?

From: Peter Clutton (peterclutton_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/15/05

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    Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:21:46 -0700
To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>

    On 10/14/05, Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> wrote:
    > I inherited a number of machines and now have to deal with maintaining a
    > small set of users accros 20 machines.
    > Currently using MySQL accross different machines, but not shared. Would
    > like to have a single way to authenticate all email users accross all
    > machines.
    >
    > Preferably a distributed system which can run on top of PostgreSQL.

    Well questions of which one are all a matter of opinion. LDAP is an
    established implementation of the .x500 standard, and the open version
    OpenLDAP can run with a mysql backend. It sounds like it would fulfil
    your needs.

    Kerberos is an authentication protocol rather than a directory
    service, and NIS is a simple directory service introduced by Sun.

    Hope that helps!
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