Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] shared Logins on UNIX/Mac?
From: Oliver Wrede (owrede@ds.fh-koeln.de)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 08:40:05 EDT
First, I thank all of you who replied to my request.
I found a workaround, which seems very promising:
MacLogin
http://users.ccnet.com/~kiberkli/maclogin/about-maclogin.html
I saw this on the page
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/links.html
following a remark from Michael Han.
Especially the hint upon clear-text passwords in MacOS was very new
to me. I always trusted those MacOS admins who claimed that MacOS
is much more secure than UNIX systems...
Are there any paket sniffers out there already wich grab the
AppleShare passwords from the TCP/IP network (or even from the
DDP layer?)
Michael Han asked:
>Yes, a bit off-topic, then. Is there some reason you're particularly
>attached to running a true AppleShare server (I acknowledge there
>*are* good reasons)
We have a lab enviroment with mainly MacOS and some NT machines. The
UNIX-Server does all the Internet stuff and serves als Fileserver
for the User-spaces.
We just have 2 new machines for serving. Our staff is somewhat split into
contra-heterogenous and pro-heterogenous admins. Due to lack of experience
with MacOS-servers and UNIX in Mac-enviroments as well, we can't solve this
without keeping both doors open.
Samba is going to be able to represent a full featured NT server soon,
and so our first idea was to have Linux serve as authentificator for all
machines in our department using the same usernames and Logins for
everything. Netatalk plays the same role in this game like Samba does. And
because we already use NIS for sharing logins, I naturally thought a NIS
client for Mac would do the trick.
I am pretty sure we will have AppleShare IP 6.0 when it is available.
I personally did not have a chance for a closer look on it. Everything I
heard sounded good. Does anybody of you participate in the Beta-program?
But especially the very good performance of Netatalk (thanks to all of you
who did this good piece!!) is a reason why our Mac-believers had to rethink
some of their arguments.
Oliver
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