At 08:49 PM 12/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Depends on what you want to be doing, I mean that there is LDAP >authentication that would be useful for certain/most tasks, using Samba >and LDAP would be a wonderful way to do some things like NT >Authentication. > >De facto would be /etc/passwd style but since you want to be central in >account and resource management you would want to look at LDAP, NIS/NIS+ >or something of the sort, LDAP is a good solution. Also look at pGINA >modules a simple google search would yeild the desired results, you can >authenticate to a backend LDAP server directly without the need for >SAMBA to do the authentication as a PDC.
Currently what im thinking was nis, samba and ldap (using openldap) nis = seem mature, is it worth in today environment? samba = if we will move all client to linux, is it usefull to use auth model which was not linux 'native' auth. ldap = is it proven techology for this purpose? I just wondering what are the auth model/directory service used by large company with *nix environment. Tks. > > Cheers, > > Aly. > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
