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> It would be nice if Kerberos 5 was integrated into xdm and openssh.

I've integrated Kerberos V into xdm.  See

	ftp://idiom.com/users/davids/xdm.3.3.6-krb5.tar.bz2
	ftp://idiom.com/users/davids/xdm.4.1.0-krb5.tar.bz2

I haven't gotten around to xdm from XFree86 4.2 yet.  The lastest 
openssh does have Kerberos V support, but I'm not sure how to make 
it work without PAM.  Another thing I've been meaning to get to ...

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> I also learned that Kerberos is authentication only.  To fully replace
> NIS, I could pair Kerberos with LDAP if I had something like pam_ldap or
> nss_ldap.

You could use Kerberos for authentication, and YP without passwords for
the rest.

David S.

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