Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread Niki Kovacs
Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service it used to be called yp or yellow pages. it works with samba too. I'm new to centralized user authentication, and I want to learn how to do it. I've heard that NIS is a deprecated technology, and that one

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 08:03 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service it used to be called yp or yellow pages. it works with samba too. I'm new to centralized user authentication, and I want to learn how to do

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread Geoff Galitz
it used to be called yp or yellow pages. it works with samba too. I'm new to centralized user authentication, and I want to learn how to do it. I've heard that NIS is a deprecated technology, and that one should favour LDAP over it. I'd be curious if someone could explain the

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread m . roth
Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service it used to be called yp or yellow pages. it works with samba too. I'm new to centralized user authentication, and I want to learn how to do it. I've heard that NIS is a deprecated technology, and that one

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm new to centralized user authentication, and I want to learn how to do it. I've heard that NIS is a deprecated technology, and that one should favour LDAP over it. I'd be curious if someone could explain the facts behind this (or

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:51:53AM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: That's the heart of it... NIS was fine in a younger and more innocent day :) NIS+ was ostensibly more secure but was a pain to get quite perfect. In many of the shops I visited that were using NIS+ there were lots of

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-25 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service it used to be called yp or yellow pages. it works with samba too. jobst On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 03:17:04PM +, Tom Brown (t...@ng23.net) wrote: Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user auth?

[CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Brown
Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user auth? thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-24 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tom Brown t...@ng23.net wrote: Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user auth? thanks ___ LDAP? MySQL based authentication, depending on how / where you want to apply it AD ?

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-24 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user auth? I am currently testing LDAP (openldap) combined with nss_ldap, configured with authconfig. It works and the nice thing is that you can have consistent authentication at OS and application level (apache, PHP,

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-24 Thread Rob Kampen
Mathieu Baudier wrote: Apart from ipa are there any other good tools out there for centralised user auth? I am currently testing LDAP (openldap) combined with nss_ldap, configured with authconfig. It works and the nice thing is that you can have consistent authentication at