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Date:      21 Oct 2002 08:39:19 -0400
From:      Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com>
To:        David Loszewski <stealth215@attbi.com>
Cc:        wolf <mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: authentication server with group permissions?
Message-ID:  <1035203959.281.4.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3DB33D0F.6010407@attbi.com>
References:  <20021019222345.DAYW18217.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@rwcrwbc70> <3DB21FDB.8000005@hq.dyns.cx>  <3DB33D0F.6010407@attbi.com>

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On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 19:32, David Loszewski wrote:
> basically what we are trying to accomplish is that I'm in an office with 
> may employees.
> Say we have 5 different servers, and I have files on the servers that I 
> want all the employees in a specific group have read access to those 
> files, or write access depending on permissions for that group.  So when 
> an employee logs into a server I want it to go to some internal 
> authentication server and tell the server that it's k for that person to 
> access that file.  I want to do this without copying to passwd file to 
> each server.
> 
> Dave
> 
> wolf wrote:
> 
> > could you be more specific?
> >
> > sharing files via NFS?
> > transparent logging to other servers?
> > other?
> >
> > What you are trying to do in particular affects how you
> > accomplish your goal.
> >
> > stealth215@attbi.com wrote:
> >
> >> Could someone point me in the right direction to find
> >> information on creating an authentication server in such
> >> a way that if some user logs in on a particular machine,
> >> as long as he is in a certain group he will have read
> >> access to all/or certain files as well on other servers
> >> depending on the group and rules set for that group?
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
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> >
> >
> 
> 
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Make sure you also check out Kerberos (http://web.mit.edu/kerberos).  

-Matt


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