--- Simon Marsden
(Sorry that I was not clear about my needs Thomas - thanks for replying though. I want a Suse 9.1 client to log on to a Fedora server)
That's Ok. So NIS is one possible solution.
Can't you just use smbclient (admittedly I couldn't get this to work - hence my question ;)
You can, but if it is just authentication, using samba is overkill, when NIS suits your needs far better.
getting them to allow local logins to usernames such as "john smith" with no password! Not proving easy.
Start thwacking PAM for that. It's possible.
Why is it not secure?
Oh, for many reasons. I could list them, but the following page has done that for me: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-7/node135.html#nisthreats -- Thomas Adam ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com