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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!nntp.igs.net!usenet From: pomegranite@cnwl.igs.net (Mat Trudel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: How best to handle authentication over two machines? Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 05:58:16 GMT Organization: IGS - Information Gateway Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <539s3d$dfu@nntp.igs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pomegranite.cnwl.igs.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hi all, I work at an ISP, and we are currently upgrading from one BSDI machine that handles everything (everything being the usual ISP brouhaha; modems, DNS, httpd, mail etc...) to a dual server system; the BSDI machine handling modems, DNS and mail, and another FreeBSD machine handling http and ftp. Anyway, my question is this: how do I best handle the authentication of users on the new machine. (Obviously) our users are going to have to get on the FreeBSD box to upload stuff, debug CGI's etc..., but i'm not sure of the best way to handle this. YP/NIS looks to me to be the best way to do this, and seeing as i'm quite familiar with it, it would be my first choice, BUT I can't find a BSDI version of ypserv (or any YP /NIS stuff for that matter) anywhere. The man pages (as usual) reveal nothing. A dig around the BSDI web site returns nothing. Does anyone know of any little known / third party / easier way to do this that has obviously escaped me stuff that may be of use here? Thanks in advance for anyone's help! Mat Trudel IGS Cornwall pomegranite@cnwl.igs.net