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- From: john@iastate.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Date: 18 Jul 92 06:11 MDT
- Subject: Re: Centralized user-id server
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul18.021152.1708@news.iasta>
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- zwicky@erg.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky) writes:
- }In article <10#mhdm@dixie.com> stan@dixie.com (Stan Brown) writes:
- }>aej@manyjars.WPI.EDU (Allan E Johannesen) writes:
- }>>>>>>> On 10 Jul 92 20:08:33 GMT, lcz@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals) said:
- }>>lcz> I recall reading somewhere (I believe in one of the Usenix
- }>>lcz> conference proceedings) about a centralized user name server.
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- }>>Sounds sort of like kerberos/hesoid.
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- }Absolutely, completely and totally certain. Neither Kerberos nor NIS
- }provide the service he's talking about, which has to do with
- }*creating* user accounts, not logging in.
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- Actually, the combination of kerberos, hesiod, and moira (all born in
- MIT's Project Athena) *does* do all of this -- we use them [you can also
- buy the DECathena product from, you guessed it, DEC].
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- John
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