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From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How best to handle authentication over two machines? Date: 7 Oct 1996 12:54:57 -0700 Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, USA, Earth Lines: 10 Message-ID: <53bn6h$5k@olympus.nwnet.net> References: <539s3d$dfu@nntp.igs.net> <53arr4$48e@innocence.interface-business.de> <53b837$7in@stratus.skypoint.net> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!newstand.syr.edu!chronos.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!netnews.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail >> YP/NIS looks to me to be the best way to do this YP is a security and reliability nightmare. Avoid it like the plague it is. >aren't any right now. I currently use rdist to keep things synchronized >across machines and it works fine. The syntax for the configuration file >is very easy if you've ever used Makefiles, and the man page is pretty good. Use rdist 6.1.2+, though, not the bundled one. Also, use ssh as the transport.