[ale] linux's flavor of remote validation?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Apr 4 07:36:11 EST 2002


Oops! Momentary lapse of typing skills. It is www.openldap.org

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 00:00, Ken Kennedy wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:24:10PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Provided you are behind a firewall, NIS and NFS have been used
> > successfully to do exactly that. NIS provides the login authentication
> > and NFS provides the /home/user directory structure.
> > 
> > LDAP is the replacement for both. I have not used it yet. There is
> > copious documentation for it. www.ldap.org
> 
> Perhaps you mean http://www.openldap.org 
> 
> I get only a crappy "All-Internet Search" thingie at ldap.org.
> 
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> 
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