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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:33:53 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Distributed authentication. Which one?
Message-ID:  <20051017203353.GF33270@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051016010251.R90770@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 01:04:08AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >I would say LDAP, but then I've never used NIS.
> 
> The general comment I am seeing in archives is that it is not commonly 
> used anymore.

It has some interoperability and security issues. They're solvable, IMO.
For example, most of the security concerns can be addressed with a
combination of transport-mode IPsec and Kerberos and I avoid inter-
operability issues by avoiding weird implementations of NIS ;-)

-T


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