MS2LINUX - Authentication basics

[David Mandala]

Bill I am bit confused would you please be more explicit? Both on the
NIS "1/2" of your passwd/shadow/group files and on the Linux not
maintaining the authentication. 

Actually there is another option for those that liked the NT4 domains or
those that need /are required to maintain a mixed Windows/Linux
environment. SAMBA will happily do NT4 domains and shortly W2k domains
and Linux will quite easily authenticate against it. Not that I'd go
that way but it is an option for those that have a mixed environment.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 17:08, Scott H wrote:
> >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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