[H-GEN] Central Account Management / NIS/ YP/ ....

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Raymond Smith wrote:

> fileserver/gateway/router/security hazard (RH),

A fileserver?  On a router?  Uhhhh.

> We need some sort of centralised administration of users and groups and so
> forth so things like NFS work well. Now the only way I know to do this is
> withNIS (or YP) but are there alternatives? Are there very nasty problems
> I should no about it? Could anyone recommended essential reading before I
> undertake this project?

One option is to use LDAP authentication - I know that RH
can deal with it, and there should be methods of tricking
Win2k into joining the party too.  Given Win2k uses Active
Directory, which is built on top of LDAP, there should be
some way of doing it.

Try having a look at 
http://staff.pisoftware.com/bmarshal/publications/ldap.html
and feel free to bug me if you have any questions about LDAP.

Thanks,
Brad
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