Re: LDAP replacing NIS...?

Akop Pogosian <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:01:54 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.sun
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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:35:59AM -0800, David M. Fetter wrote:
> Try replacing NIS with kerberos.  See http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/.
> 
> 

AFAIK, Kerberos is an authentication service, not a directory service.
Even if you use Kerberos, you still need a directory service, at very
least, to distribute the /etc/passwd data.

-akop

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