Re: Distributed authentication. Which one?

From: Francisco Reyes (lists_at_natserv.com)
Date: 10/15/05

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To: Peter Clutton <peterclutton@gmail.com>

    On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Peter Clutton wrote:

    > 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.

    Will take a look.

    > Kerberos is an authentication protocol rather than a directory

    So Kerberos would be more along the lines of users login in to the
    machines?

    > service, and NIS is a simple directory service introduced by Sun.

    Between LDAP and NIS which one would you consider to be:
    1- More secure
    2- Easier to maintain
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