[H-GEN] kerberos or nis+

[David Jericho]

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I have the need to have user accounts for a variety of uses on a bunch of
machines outside a secured network. This includes things like mail, proxy
auth, password authentication and a few other minor things.

I'm looking at either using nis+ or kerberos from a openbsd authentication
server. What are peoples general suggestions? Which is more secure?

Kerberos support as far as I can tell under Linux isn't too crash hot, but
it's fairly well supported under OpenBSD. Whereas NIS+ is the opposite.

Opinions? The password system may also make it's way onto some Solaris boxes.

-- 
David Jericho, Senior Systems Adminstrator
Webmatch Interactive Marketing


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