Single sign-on suggestions?

[albi]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:56:23 +0100
"Eamonn Sullivan" <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:

> So I'm throwing this out for discussion here. I'm sure other people
> have this problem. What's the simplist way to get single sign-on
> working on Dapper? Is LDAP really the way to go or is it too
> complicated for such a simple setup? Is anyone working on something
> for edgy or beyond that I can help test?

imo NIS is much simpler than LDAP, and i'm convinced that NIS must be
available for macosx too
.. it does send plain-text passwords over the local network though

i've been happily using NIS for years in combination with samba and NFS