On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Richard Hoffbeck wrote:

> But look at it from the IT managers point of view. You've got 100+ 
> people set up for user authentication against VMS with no easy way to 
> utilize that service from Linux/Solaris/etc. So you can require users to 
> have accounts on both the new and old system, or you spring for 
> proprietary software to keep passwords in sync or export the 
> authentication services - I'm pretty sure there's a 3rd party NFS/NIS 
> package available and of course there is always PathWorks (if clear text 
> passwords don't bother you) but they both co$t.

We have been using an NT box to do authentication for the VMS machines. 
I don't know the details there, but I think the VMS system passwords are 
the same as the NT Domain passwords and the VMS box communicates with the 
NT box when someone tries to log into the VMS server.  We want Linux to be 
able to use this same system.  How can that be accomplished?  Our IT guys 
thought there might be an LDAP-based solution, but they haven't been able 
to come up with it yet.  It would be a big time saver if we could get 
something to do the authentication for us.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Mike

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