[CoLoCo] If you don't use AD how can you authenticate users?

[W S]

Please let NIS die.  Unless you're inheriting NIS from someone, I'd
avoid it like the plague.

You'd want to implement an LDAP backend, usually OpenLDAP.  Of course,
all this means having to twiddle some /etc/pam.d files by hand,
touching the /etc/nsswitch.conf file, and messing with the
/etc/ldap.conf file.

On Jan 21, 2008 12:54 PM, Michael Robbert <mrobbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> The classic answer, assuming we're talking about Linux systems(this is a
> Linux list after all), is NIS, but it is not secure at all. I think that
> modern implementations use LDAP and/or Kerberos. You can also use Samba.
> I've used NIS and Samba in the past, but have yet to play too much with LDAP
> and Kerberos, but others that I work with have this working on a few
> systems.
>
> Mike Robbert
>
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 12:28 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> > Hey gang,
> >
> > Just curious. If you have a bunch of desktop computers and want to
> > have users login but don't want to create individual accounts on all
> > the computers what is the solution? Here we use Active Directory but
> > assuming you don't use that, what options exist?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -jim
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