Hi I try to evaluate wich is THE user database and login system.
I read many docs and tried it for myself. I ask here for your thoughts about that. First some of mine: LDAP: This is deffinitly a cool method. Its very simple and very secure due its high SSL encryption. And through the possibility of NSS_LDAP virtually every application will automatically support that and due the nature of LDAP you are able to store all sort of information about the user in the LDAP tree. KerberosV5: Also a somewhat simple method. Also (very) secure. Has a different approach (its ticket system). Is fully compatible with AFS. Perhapps compatible with other systems like Win32. But you still need a passwd file to store special user data, right? AFS: The old approach. Somewhat secure. Is also (no, really? :-) ) compatible with AFS. It uses a modified Krbv4 system. It should be also very protable through all sorts of Unixes and Win32. Need of a passwd file. Conclusion: Out of this information i would prefer the LDAP Approach but what is if you want to use AFS as distributed filesystem and LDAP as user-database? Then you need to maintain 2 user-databases or is there a way to get AFS working with LDAP? You see, there are lots of points to view at! Have i missed an important other approach? RFC and experiences. cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? Don't worry. Try Linux! (www.linux.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
