Re: [MLUG] LDAP v. NIS v. whatever (for distributed authentication)

[Jason McIntosh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well, I do know that Mac OS X has support for LDAP authentication 
services.  That's really what NetInfo is - a directory service.  
Panther, the new OS X (10.3) is going to be using an OpenLDAP backend, 
or at least thats what my understand of what the server is going to 
run.  I'm beta testing the client right now, and its really really 
nice.  I've also played with the 10.2 version of OS X Server, and it's 
got OpenLDAP support.
Oh, one last note - 10.3 is going to have samba 3.0 and can thus act as 
an NT PDC, as well as be part of an active directory, and should be 
able to provide domain logins for NT, 2000, and XP.
Anyways, if you want long term, I recommend LDAP.  It's fast, 
efficient, etc. but it's also a royal pain to admin.  Thus, the 
advantage of Mac OS X Server - it has a pretty nice interface for this.
Just my .02
Jason

Jason McIntosh
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On Sep 9, 2003, at 2:13 PM, Dave Lloyd wrote:

> LDAP is supported by a wide variety of applications for authentication.
> I think that it would probably be the best possible compromise.
>
> On a related note, I wonder if MacOS X has support for PAM.
>
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