Linux password server?

[Kenneth Burgener]

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Kerberos should form the center of any authentication system, even when
> you use LDAP.  LDAP was never intended to provide authentication
> (although it can, and many use it as such).  Rather it's intended to
> provide the information necessary for accounts themselves to exist.
> uidNumber to uid mapping, homedirectory, etc. So kerberos and LDAP are
> both important, but both perform different roles.  Think of LDAP
> as /etc/passwd and Kerberos as /etc/shadow.
> 
> So on Linux I set it up to use kerberos authentication and LDAP user
> information.
> 
> With kerberos, if everything's kerberized, life is good indeed.  In fact
> 
> Michael


Beautiful!


Thank you for your response,
Kenneth