On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:53, John Haxby wrote: > kent emia wrote: > > >aha, so is there any "PDC" equivalent for linux? is it NFS? NIS? > > > > > Of those two, NIS is the closest -- a primary domain controller is > mostly to do with authentication. It's a little more than NIS though > since you're talking about establishing trust relationships between > machines in a domain rather than just central storage of the > authentication database. There isn't really an equivalent for a PDC in > Unix/Linux, but the idea of a domain is most closely linked to kerberos. NIS ok... but what is kerberos? as i googled 'Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol' (dumb question sorry) so if i will implement 'NIS' in our network, am i implementing 'Kerberos' too? > > jch -- kent emia <kent-cdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
