nis security

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 08), Tillman Hodgson said:
> > > I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the
> > > cats pajamas :-)
> >
> > This sounds exactly like what we are looking for. Can you point us
> > to any docs explaining how you do this??
> 
> The rough instructions are fairly simple:
> 
> * Set up Kerberos and ensure you have a working realm
> * Set up NIS, but set all the passwd fields to something that doesn't
>   map to a real password (I like 'krb5', others like '*')

You can do something similar with LDAP, by using pam_ldap for
authentication and NIS for the rest of the user info lookup.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com