Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] shared Logins on UNIX/Mac?
From: Tony Stuckey (stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 10 1998 - 14:06:19 EDT
> We just ran into the question how it might be possible to share Logins
> between a UNIX-Server and a Mac-Server (we store the Logins on the UNIX side).
>
> One way I can imagine which might work well would be a NIS client for
> MacOS, but I haven't seen something like this for Macintosh!
There aren't any as far as I know.
> Another thing I have heard, was PAM (password authentification modules),
> about which I currently do not know anything! What is it? Can I use it for
> this purpose? What do I have to do?
PAM is an authentication module specification. The counterpart
under MacOS is the UAM. I don't think there are any UAMs that do NIS-ish
things, although I thought there was a Kerberos one.
That might be good enough for your purposes.
-- Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu "When I was young, the sky was full of stars. I watched them burn out one by one." -Warren Zevon
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