In fact, there are many ways to do this. NIS is the most time-honored, but LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, NDS, and a number of others are available. The system that allows this is called PAM, Pluggable Authentication Modules. Check out /etc/pam.d for the config files. This section of the LDAP HOWTO discusses using LDAP to replace NIS or flatfiles for authentication: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/pamnss.html
I haven't (yet) implemented this with LDAP, but I have setup NDS authentication via PAM and it works very well. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Network Authentication for Linux Is there anything available to have your Linux login authenticate against a central server (besides NIS)? I see an option in Mandrake to authenticate against LDAP but I have not been able to get it to work. TIA! Matt _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
