[4396] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Lameter)
Sun Sep 15 11:44:59 1996
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 08:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
To: Dominik Kubla <kubla@netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609151429.QAA14993@kastanie.netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:
kubla>
kubla>Christoph Lameter wrote:
kubla>> Of course security measures need to be taken and the Linux NIS Server has
kubla>> a lot of options that other system do not have for protection. Naturally
kubla>> you would want linux to be the NIS Server. Passwords are generally
kubla>> NOT available to users on any system in the scheme that I am using.
kubla>
kubla>I take it that you are not using HP/UX on any of your systems? If you did,
kubla>you would now that it is far easier to us a HP as a NIS Server for Linux then
kubla>the other way round ...
I am using an HP here and I really avoid to touch that messy OS.
The security both for NIS client and server functions are stoneage. I have
students on the same net as the HP. This pretty much is the end for
anything related to NIS on that machine. Its just a dumb server. If we
could get that database for Linux I certainly would try to get rid of it.
kubla>??? What are you talking about ??? AFS uses Kerberos 4 and DCE/DFS uses
kubla>OSF-Kerberos 5. And those are the most advanced ways to use a LAN/WAN that i
kubla>know of, and i certainly know a lot!
Really have seen no one using it. AFS certainly is good. Kerberos ...
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