MS2LINUX - Authentication basics

[der.hans]

Am 08. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Bill Warner so:

> I have been looking into this as well.  NIS works in a way that you can
> basically store half your passwd/shadow/group files on one central
> server.  Sort of an NFS for single files.  I am still looking into LDAP
> as an option.  The only thing that I don't like about the Linux
> authentication options is the fact that unlike windows it typical
> applications don't maintain the authentication, s every time you start a
> web browser you have to re-authenticate with any servers there.  It
> makes for a difficult use experience for the non techies.

Konqueror, Galeon and Mozilla all have options to save passwords. I think
they even default to that.

I turn it off, so I can't say how well it works.

ciao,

der.hans
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