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- From: arch@gandalf.pei.com (Arch Mott)
- Subject: Re: Centralized user-id server
- Message-ID: <arch.711943456@pei.com>
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- References: <Br6vyA.Gxw@dptspd.sat.datapoint.> <1992Jul18.021152.1708@news.iasta>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:04:16 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- john@iastate.edu writes:
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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.
-
- >}>>Sounds sort of like kerberos/hesoid.
-
- >}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.
-
- >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].
-
- I seem to remember Evi Nemeth talking about a program they use at CU Boulder
- called uniquid or some such. It appears to be available from
- boulder.colorado.edu via anonymous ftp. It's in
- /pub/local-sources/uniquid.tar.Z.
-
- I've never used it so I can't vouch for its usefulness. Or its simplicity (or
- lack thereof) when compared to kerberos/hesiod/moira.
-
- -Arch.
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