[Novalug] Centralized user authentication

gregory pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun May 6 19:51:44 EDT 2007


On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 05:17:58PM -0400, Peter Larsen wrote:
> Is NIS still the way to go to have a centralized user authentication? Or 
> is open ldap better ... ??  NIS is quite old but I guess old and proven?

I wouldn't use NIS. If it was *nix, I would look at Kerberos or LDAP.
Kerberos even plays nice w/ AD. 

It really depends on what centralized user auth means to you.... login
only? Apps also? Commercial or open source?

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