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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: kerberized login authentication
Keywords: user administration
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Date: 30 Aug 90 22:33:52 GMT
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In article <7857@helios.TAMU.EDU> daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) writes:
>In article <1950@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> jay@unlv.edu (Jay Nietling) writes
>We have a Sun running yellow pages, so just putting a + at the end of 
>/etc/passwd on each NeXT lets any user login on any workstation.

>Writing your own login window with Interface Builder would be a fun exercise,
>but why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?

Many folks, us included, want to "reinvent the wheel" because we feel
that Yellow Pages sucks dead squirels though a garden hose. (To coin a
phrase.)

The reason the original poster wanted to replace the LoginWindow
program was so he could use Kerberos.  Folks want to use Kerboros
authentication because security is important to them.  Security and
Yellow Pages are generally incompatible.  Using YP to do host lookups
is also a big lose.

I sure wish that NeXT had adopted the MIT Athena model (Kerberos,
Hesiod, etc) rather than this "easy to use", of of a kind propriatary
NetInfo.  Talk about re-inventing the wheel.

louie