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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:16:28 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org>
To:        Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Centralized authentication
Message-ID:  <20020409161628.GK19961@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20020409153029.B10593@spc.org>
References:  <874riov1et.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> <20020409153029.B10593@spc.org>

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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:30:29PM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> What pam_ldap will give you is a means of securely
> verifying a user's password,

s/securely/insecurely/

unless you are using SSL to protect your LDAP connection, and you are
verifying certificates.  In which case your response time is probably
not very nice.

However, the suggested approach can be modified in a useful fashion:
use NIS+ for group, passwd files.  Disable passwords in NIS+ (e.g. use
`*' in the password field).  Use Kerberos for authentication.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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