[Preston] webmin and stuff

[Robert Reynolds]

Jeremy

The old way of doing a common authentication method is to use a NIS server.  

Recently LDAP has started to gain ground authentication mechanism,
because it's less obtuse than NIS and is more interoperable with other
clients (eg clients like Evolution or Outlook can query an LDAP
server).

If you are interested in NIS I've got a PDF of an O'Reilly book which
may help (not sure what LDAP docs I've got)

Regards

Rob

On 5/5/05, ahnkle <jeremy at ekers.idps.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Just some reminders:
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> in the pub I talked about administering a linux box using webmin, a web
> based tool allowing you to remotely administer a box.
> 
> There was also a bit about making an X display clearer. Try making sure
> the driver is correct for the video card, and that the horizontal and
> vertical refresh rates detailed in the xorg.conf (or XFree86.conf) X
> config files match the monitor you're using. And use the
> control-alt-backspace key to kill those errant X sessions where the
> display remains encrypted.
> 
> BTW:
> ~ does anyone have any more details on how a large installation of linux
> boxes on a network might authenticate all the services they use again
> one box/domain/thing. I am thinking of a linux equivalent of having a
> windows domain, where logging on admits access to file shares, email, etc.
> 
> regards,
> jeremy
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