Re: Distributed authentication. Which one?
From: Tillman Hodgson (tillman_at_seekingfire.com)
Date: 10/17/05
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Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:33:53 -0600 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 01:04:08AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >I would say LDAP, but then I've never used NIS.
>
> The general comment I am seeing in archives is that it is not commonly
> used anymore.
It has some interoperability and security issues. They're solvable, IMO.
For example, most of the security concerns can be addressed with a
combination of transport-mode IPsec and Kerberos and I avoid inter-
operability issues by avoiding weird implementations of NIS ;-)
-T
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