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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!solid.theo-physik.uni-kiel.de!news.netuse.de!Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!Hanover.Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How best to handle authentication over two machines? Date: 7 Oct 1996 12:08:04 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <53arr4$48e@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <539s3d$dfu@nntp.igs.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E pomegranite@cnwl.igs.net (Mat Trudel) wrote: > 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! Why aren't you going to do it the other way round? The YP server for FreeBSD should be stable enough, so take this machine as the master. You need to install DES on the FreeBSD system anyway. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j