Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] shared Logins on UNIX/Mac?
From: Oliver Wrede (owrede@ds.fh-koeln.de)
Date: Mon Aug 10 1998 - 13:32:54 EDT
At 09:22 10.08.98 -0700, Michael M Han wrote:
>> 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!
>You could just use netatalk on the Unix host. It means your passwords
>get transmitted as cleartext, but it's the same username/password pair
>for telnet or for the Chooser. Sounds like what you're looking for.
>
>Or, more exotic would be to set up a second unix box, use NIS to get
>the primary host's passwd's and NFS to get the data you want and share
>using netatalk.
Maybe I expressed myself not clear enough. I recieved some replies with
answers to a problem I don't have:
I want to log into a MasOS fileserver (not into a UNIX box). The MacOS
fileserver should ask for a username and password which is setup and
stored on a UNIX (e.g. Linux) box.
Because of the file-permission issue on the MacOS server there must also
be access to the /etc/group file of the central UNIX server. Such things
are usually done with NIS among UNIX systems.
So what would be perfect is a NIS-client for MacOS, which reads the
passwd- and group-maps from the NIS-server and translates them into
the MacOS-specific "User&Groups". I could imagine this could be a
sort of control panel replacement.
This does not really intersect with the netatalk software at all (so
it might be a little bit off topic here), but I hoped I have a
good chance to meet someone with that knowldge here...
Oliver
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