Re: open ldap or SUN one directory server

From: Greg Andrews (gerg_at_panix.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:19:45 +0000 (UTC)

Rusty Wright <rusty@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
>
>Shouldn't you be using kerberos for authentication? I thought
>kerberos was designed for authentication and ldap was designed for
>directory information.
>

Which can include the contents of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
I.e., authentication information. Very similar to the auth
info held by a NIS or NIS+ server, in fact.

  -Greg 

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