Single sign-on suggestions?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:12 +0200, albi wrote:
> 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 

small correction: NIS sends the shadow file in plaintext over the
network. So a sniffer gets the password hashes, not the actual password.

alan