Sync UNIX and NT passwords? - was Re: Did I miss something?

[Peter Polkinghorne]

James Sutherland <jas88 at cam.ac.uk> said:

> NISGINA does this for NT machines using a NIS database, IIRC. I can't
> remember the URL offhand, though :-( 

Yes thats correct - we use it.

Base URL: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~williams/

and a bit on our experience:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~ccusrdt/winntnisgina/gina.html

Comes down to what you want to use as the basis of your authentication
framework and what hooks the clients have (eg PAM for Unix and GINA for NT),
what is easiest to change ...

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