atom feed8 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-ispDistributed authentication. Which one?
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Francisco ReyesOct 14, 2005 6:16 pm 
Peter CluttonOct 14, 2005 10:21 pm 
Francisco ReyesOct 15, 2005 10:33 am 
Aaron GlennOct 15, 2005 3:51 pm 
Francisco ReyesOct 15, 2005 10:04 pm 
Tillman HodgsonOct 17, 2005 1:33 pm 
FranciscoOct 18, 2005 7:40 am 
Tillman HodgsonOct 18, 2005 8:09 am 
Subject:Distributed authentication. Which one?
From:Peter Clutton (pete@gmail.com)
Date:Oct 14, 2005 10:21:37 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-isp

On 10/14/05, Francisco Reyes <lis@natserv.com> wrote:

I inherited a number of machines and now have to deal with maintaining a small set of users accros 20 machines. Currently using MySQL accross different machines, but not shared. Would like to have a single way to authenticate all email users accross all machines.

Preferably a distributed system which can run on top of PostgreSQL.

Well questions of which one are all a matter of opinion. LDAP is an established implementation of the .x500 standard, and the open version OpenLDAP can run with a mysql backend. It sounds like it would fulfil your needs.

Kerberos is an authentication protocol rather than a directory service, and NIS is a simple directory service introduced by Sun.

Hope that helps!