On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Aron Roberts wrote:

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> actually as I recall Mac OS X doesn't use /etc/passwd (or shadow) for
> authentication.  It uses netinfo which in it's current form looks very
> LDAPish to me though I can't say I have actually looked into it.

Mac OS X is able to make use of a number of directory services including
NIS, LDAP and NetInfo. Authentication can additionall come from kerberos.
Typically I'll deploy LDAP + kerberos, or sometimes (lately) NIS +
kerberos.

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> On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 01:04  PM, David wrote:
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> > 	Is anything authenticating users logging into a MacOS-X box
> > 	against a NetBSD server, via NIS, Samba, or some other method?
> >
> > 	Actually I suppose I could rsync the password files across, but it
> > 	somehow seems inelegant :)
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> >
> > --
> > 			David Brownlee - abs@mono.org
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