newbie question : kerberos instead of nis

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Thu Feb 5 17:24:21 EST 2004


>>>>> "benny" == benny B <bennyB at benny.be> writes:

    benny> My question is : can Kerberos alone replace nis or I need
    benny> to implement ldap+kerberos ?  All stations/Servers are
    benny> Linux. Is ther an option form kerberos in nsswitch.conf ?

No, Kerberos does not provide account information, only
authentication.

You specifically want to avoid pam_ldap in a Kerberos + LDAP
environment.



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