authentication question

[Ryan Golhar]

I would suggest using NIS.  I currently have about 20 linux hosts that
users can use.  All users are authenticated via NIS.  Its pretty easy to
set up and run...

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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

Phone: 973-972-5034
Fax: 973-972-7412
Email: golharam at umdnj.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of K. Richard Pixley
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:52 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: authentication question


I'm at a loss for how to do authentication well for a small group of 
linux machines.

We have several linux hosts, all of which run samba, and all of which 
should use a single password per user, or at least, a single password 
change program which changes all passwords.  Samba really wants to use a

domain server or to keep it's own password database separate from the 
unix passwords.

Any suggestions on how to get these all authenticated off the same
database?

The only thing I can see to do is to turn one into a domain controller 
and have everything else authenticate off that.  Are there any other 
alternatives?

--rich


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