[421] in Kerberos
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (G.Eustace%massey.ac.nz@RELAY.CS.NET)
Mon Jul 4 17:20:26 1988
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Subject: Problems with setting up and administrating NFS environments.
We are currently trying to set up a network with about 500 pcs, and
some 5 servers. I am having difficulty trying to work out how to cope
with the problems of user authentication, allocation of user ids etc.
The problem is that we anticipate a user community of approx. 1200
people to be using the 500 workstations, so each more station will have
multiple users and each user can use multiple stations.
These are some more concerns:
1. The NFS export lists are on the basis of host, not user, which
presents security difficulties.
2. What sort of user names does one use, we would like to be able to
have sensible names like J.Smith, W.Fitzgerald etc. but Unix doesn't
like '.'s or names >8 characters, and some versions aren't to keen
on capital letters.
3. What is going to happen to interactive logins that have to search a
passwd file that has thousands of entries.
The comments I have seen regarding kerberos seem to suggest that some
of these problems have already been addressed.
Any help or info you can send would be much appreciated.
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Glen Eustace, Software Mgr, Comp.Cntr, Massey Uni, Palmerston Nth, N.Z.
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