Re: LDAP replacing NIS...?

From: Akop Pogosian (akopps@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 01/30/03

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From: Akop Pogosian <akopps@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: focus-sun@securityfocus.com

    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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