I suspect there would be a lot of people who would be very greatfull if you did, me included.
________________________________________________________ Richard Worwood, TDB Networks 4 High Street, Twyford, Berkshire RG10 9AE Office: +44 (0) 118 934 0056 Mobile: +44 (0) 7771 662880 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Canary Sent: 05 October 2002 13:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what's the trend for network authentication these days? Nick, Sounds like your the man to write that book, or at least write up an intuitive How-To :-) Nick Urbanik wrote: > > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > > the last i heard, there was a shift away from NIS and towards > > LDAP for remote authentication in linux environments. is this > > the case? > > Yes. > > > and, if it exists, where would one get information/ > > statistics on remote authentication usage in these > > environments? > > I don't understand your question. I dunno, grep my logs or something. Please > be more specific. > > LDAP infrastructure information is amazingly hard to come by. I wrote all the > software for our Institute Department myself, referring to the good Perl > Net::LDAP documentation. The LDAP bible is out of print, according to my > bookshop. Aelieen Frish's new book promised much, but offered little with > LDAP. I hope O'Reilly pay someone competent to write one. I will give my > (rather localised) program to anyone who does not CC to this list (otherwise > procmail will hide it from my normal inbox) > > -- > Nick Urbanik RHCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dept. of Information & Communications Technology > Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) > Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 > PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D > GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- robert canary system services OhioCounty.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (270)298-9331 Office (270)298-7449 Fax -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
