[TUHS] YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Nov 5 09:49:01 AEST 2018


On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:44 PM Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kerberos exists too, but somewhat less common – FreeIPA includes it by
> default, but many people just piggyback on LDAP bind as password-based
> authentication and use SSH keys for passwordless (because apparently
> protocols other than SSH and HTTPS don't exist anymore). The MIT Kerberos 5
> suite is still actively maintained and receives new features, such as
> S-PAKE), whereas Heimdal appears to be on life support.
>

FreeBSD has Heimdal. We switched over a long time ago when MIT Kerberos 5
at MIT looked like it was going to die. Now the roles have somewhat
reversed.

Warner
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