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Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Lameter)
Sat Sep 14 19:35:11 1996
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From: clameter@miriam.fuller.edu (Christoph Lameter)
Date: 14 Sep 1996 16:18:09 -0700
The easy way is to use NIS because most if not all Unixes support it. Anything
else will cause a lot of trouble with some system or another.
NIS is simple and universal.
Wpkwong (sakwoc@ssb.shell.com.my) wrote:
: Is there an easy way to set up a common authentication server? I need it
: for user login password verification from a number of Linux, UNIX and
: terminal server on the network. I have read something's about Andrew File
: System and Kerboros database, but seem rather complicated to me.
:
: -Wong P. Koon
