[4395] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dominik Kubla)
Sun Sep 15 11:42:18 1996
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
cc: Dominik Kubla <kubla@netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Sep 1996 07:18:28 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 16:29:08 +0200
From: Dominik Kubla <kubla@netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Of course security measures need to be taken and the Linux NIS Server has
> a lot of options that other system do not have for protection. Naturally
> you would want linux to be the NIS Server. Passwords are generally
> NOT available to users on any system in the scheme that I am using.
I take it that you are not using HP/UX on any of your systems? If you did,
you would now that it is far easier to us a HP as a NIS Server for Linux then
the other way round ...
[...]
> Kerberos is really ancient and so far I have no one seen using it.
??? What are you talking about ??? AFS uses Kerberos 4 and DCE/DFS uses
OSF-Kerberos 5. And those are the most advanced ways to use a LAN/WAN that i
know of, and i certainly know a lot!
Dominik
