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airyk
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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: unified login for linux+freebsd enviroment |
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My entire network used to be all bsd machines, which made running NIS for the passwd file simple. But now I have moved toward using linux on the desktop, and keeping freebsd for the servers, and I would like to still have a unified login scheme. NIS won't work cause as far as I know, the differences in how FreeBSD and linux authenticate make it not possible. Also, I would like to get away from NIS anyway. What other options do I have? Could LDAP be a possibility? I don't know much about how LDAP operates, but from what I have heard it sounds like it could be a possible solution
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kashani
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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My old company is doing NIS with Solaris/BSD/Linux as we speak. I was the Cisco guy there so I'm not privy to the details, but I don't recall the admins bitching too much about it. I'd had been surprised if it didn't work since that's the problem NIS was created to solve.
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airyk
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| kashani wrote: | | I'd had been surprised if it didn't work since that's the problem NIS was created to solve. |
yeah, but the issue with having freebsd and linux is that, as far as I know, you cannot just use the same passwd file interchangeably between the two systems...for instance, if they use a different hash algorithm for the passwd, or something like that. If i set up the user accounts on a freebsd machine, yes, i can easily make a linux system read the passwd file from that machine, but I don't think the passwd file will be usuable to a linux system without some changes |
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Chris W
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LDAP or Kerberos seem the obvious non-NIS options.
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fleed
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| airyk wrote: | | kashani wrote: | | I'd had been surprised if it didn't work since that's the problem NIS was created to solve. |
yeah, but the issue with having freebsd and linux is that, as far as I know, you cannot just use the same passwd file interchangeably between the two systems...for instance, if they use a different hash algorithm for the passwd, or something like that. If i set up the user accounts on a freebsd machine, yes, i can easily make a linux system read the passwd file from that machine, but I don't think the passwd file will be usuable to a linux system without some changes |
I don't think you have to care about the password file format if you're using NIS. |
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