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Secure Distributed Password System?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Hardy)
Tue Jul 4 03:24:19 1995
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rob Hardy <robert@aurora.carleton.ca>
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
I'm trying to get a secure distributed password system going under linux.
>From the sounds of it I believe I'm after something like NIS+.
But as far as I know this isn't available.
Security Concerns:
packet sniffing
clients can't be trusted with whole password file
clients are booting via bootp
clients are diskless
Basically I want the security that shadow gives over the net.
Is this possible with linux currently and does anyone know how do I do it?
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