SUMMARY: single sign on

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Thanks to all for the responses. This seems to be a big problem among alot of
administrators. I have not investigated thoroughly but I did receive some
leads.

My orig question:

> Is anyone using a single sign on method for Novell,NT, and Unix? I am looking
> for something where a logon would be the same for all three and the password
> will be encrypted over the network. Also the user should be able to have a
> password that would be sync'd on all three OS's when changed.
>

Responses:

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You might want to point your browser to http://www.syntunix.com. They have
such a beastie, tho I am not sure if it also handles Novell.

Hope this helps!

--Rob

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Robert Owen Thomas
mailto:robt@cymru.com
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At the moment I am looking into the same thing (posted yesterday on this
list :-)
I will send the summary "info on kerberos / ..." when i have finished
gathering the material.
I dont't know about novell, I only worry about NT-Solaris at the moment.
i) MIT's Kerberos: Solaris supports it (through PAM-Mechanism)
   NT will support it in v5.0, but it is rumeoured that Microsofts
   Kerberos implementation will not be compatible with MIT's.
ii) ssh: useful only between unix-machines and 'telnet' logins from NT.
iii) NIS: there is a free NIS-Client for NT. But NIS has no security
   and I don't know how this integrates into NT.
another (hack) solution is:
* keep an account-database on unix (we do it in perl)
* allow users to change pw over a webpage (use SSL enryption)
  (we dont do that, its just an idea I had) on an unix-server
* you can set the unix-pw from this and also the nt-password:
  rsh <nt-server> net user username pw
  you need an rshd for nt (free versions available somewhere)
Benno
(will send my summary in the next 2 days)
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Tom Clift
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