On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:04, Aly Dharshi wrote: > I consider NIS/NIS+ old technology. LDAP is the way to go, even MS ADS is based > on LDAP. Mail, Account authentication, Samba can be tied into ldap and you can > used this central authentication system to grab the passwords and do similar > things for clients and users. > > This will allow you to sync the uid/gid for all users and restrict access to > machines via the host attribute I thinks.
This sounds very good. Is there a definative document that describes using LDAP for authentication (linux and Windows hosts)? It has been a while since I looked at this and the docs I found were all over the place. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
