>From: Bill Warner <
wwarner@direct-alliance.com>:
>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.
Half? What do you mean "half"? I don't
understand that.
>Sort of an NFS for single files.
Please explain this a bit, too? I know what NFS
is, but I don't understand how you mean this.
>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, ... 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.
>Bill W
Is this true for both NIS and LDAP? Anyone know
a way around this? (Other than configuring
various client software to store passwords?) I
want my clients to be able to access shared
folders, pass through the proxy server, attach to
email, etc - ideally just logging on once to the
network.
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