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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.emeraldis.com!david From: david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Password Authentication Date: Mon, 12 Aug 96 17:26:29 GMT Organization: Emerald Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4unqof$p79@jade.emeraldis.com> References: <4u8jro$rco@socrates.aristotle.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: david.emeraldis.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 One way to solve this problem is to use NIS (Network Information System), previously referred to as Yellow Pages. This will allow you to have one set of system files, such as /etc/passwd, on one server, and the other servers use it as if it were their own. Now, whether or not NIS has been ported to BSDI, I don't know. If you find out, please let me know. I will have need for this also in the near future. *David* In article <4u8jro$rco@socrates.aristotle.net>, cshivers@aristotle.net wrote: > I am running the latest version of BSDI. I would like to know if it is > possible to do remote password authentication with a Digiboard setup. > For various reasons, we need to leave our billing and e-mail on our > main server. We would like to move the Digi system to a new server and > do password authentication in a fashion similar to our Livingstons > which use radius. However, I have been told that this is not possible > because there is no client that runs on BSDI to do this function. > > Has anyone had this problem? >