[4656] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos and /etc/passwd on a cluster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phi H Truong)
Tue Feb 21 18:48:42 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 21 Feb 1995 14:14:43 GMT
From: orion@iastate.edu (Phi H Truong)
Reply-To: orion@iastate.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
In article <EDHILL.95Feb20125601@strobe.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
Ed Hill <edhill@strobe.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
>We are setting up a cluster of machines(AIX boxes), and are trying to figure
>out the best way to distribute /etc/passwd information across the nodes. We
>don't want to use NIS because we want to keep shadow password functionality, so
>the next step is to look towards kerberos, DCE, etc...
>
>However, kerberos does not seem to provide the ability to keep a central
>registry of /etc/passwd type information, it just provides the name and passwd
>(and of course the protocols for authentication, etc...). DCE provides the
>registry with account type information, but we are not quite ready to make the
>jump to DCE yet.
>
>How do other places keep /etc/passwd information (uids, home dirs, shells) in
>sync across multiple machines that you are running kerberos on.
>
Use Bind/Hesiod for informations such as homedir, shells, uid, grpid,
grplist,... etc. Use kerberos for authentication. At our site, our
/etc/passwd doesn't have anything.
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