From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 4 9:37:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from filer4.isc.rit.edu (filer4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0931524A for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcptch@osfmail.isc.rit.edu) Received: from grace ("port 3453"@[129.21.3.102]) by osfmail.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #21576) with SMTP id <0FJ3001807BN5V@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by grace (5.65v4.0/1.1.19.2/21Sep98-0910AM) id AA00693; Mon, 04 Oct 1999 12:33:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 12:33:22 -0400 From: Jon Parise Subject: Re: One password base for some *NIX boxes In-reply-to: ; from st@i-plus.net on Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 06:42:06AM -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mail-followup-to: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-id: <19991004123322.A515@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i X-Operating-System: OSF1 V4.0 (alpha) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 06:42:06AM -0400, Troy Settle wrote: > You say NIS+Kerberos? I thought those were 2 independant auth > schemes (like how MD5 and DES are mutually exclusive encryption > schemes, but can co-exist). Guess I got a lot more reading as to > what Kerberos is. I did make a short search for documents and > guides at one time, but failed to pull anything up. Can you > cough up a URL to a fairly comprehensive guide to setting up and > using kerberos? We run NIS and kerberosV on our machines here. NIS handles the passwd / group distribution and kerberos handles all of the authentication / certificate passing. They're not mutually exclusive. I'm afraid I don't know of any immediate references, though. -- Jon Parise (parise@pobox.com) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.pobox.com/~parise/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message