Vik Bajaj on Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:13:32 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Remote Authentication


> Can someone point me to any resourses on how to set up a server so that it has 
> to go to another server to authenticate a user login and still be able to use 
> its /etc/password, /etc/shadow files?

Use Kerberos and/or RADIUS.  Or NIS/YP over a (virtual) private network if 
the job is small.  Be sure you use an implementation of NIS/YP which allows 
for MD5 shadowed passwords.

-V.


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