[4410] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Sep 15 22:28:50 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: clameter@miriam.fuller.edu (Christoph Lameter)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:21:03 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <51fefh$bhk@miriam.fuller.edu> from "Christoph Lameter" at Sep 14, 96 04:18:09 pm
> 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.
And unusable on any system requiring more than joke level security. Radius
is at least vaguely secure. Secure shell and/or kerberos solutions are
relatively strong.
Alan
