Re: Centralized authentication

I must say that I've had loads of fun with LDAP, as more and more
programs are using it as a backend for user accounts. I think it's a
good way to go!




Allen Kistler wrote:
GB wrote:
Is there a de facto standard way of providing centralized authentication
in a Linux environment analogous to Windows domain accounts? I know
that Linux can use Samba to participate in a Windows domain, or even be
a domain server, but is there a more native mechanism typically used
when Windows is not involved at all?

NIS, LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS.
Windows Active Directory is just LDAP + Kerberos, anyway, with (I think)
an option for RADIUS.
I'd go with LDAP, myself.

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