I would suggest using NIS. I currently have about 20 linux hosts that users can use. All users are authenticated via NIS. Its pretty easy to set up and run... ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of K. Richard Pixley Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 7:52 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: authentication question I'm at a loss for how to do authentication well for a small group of linux machines. We have several linux hosts, all of which run samba, and all of which should use a single password per user, or at least, a single password change program which changes all passwords. Samba really wants to use a domain server or to keep it's own password database separate from the unix passwords. Any suggestions on how to get these all authenticated off the same database? The only thing I can see to do is to turn one into a domain controller and have everything else authenticate off that. Are there any other alternatives? --rich -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
