Hi, I'm Fabrizio and my target is to deploy serveral services on a network of windows client. The service ara: -SMTP>-IMAP>-Samba>-DHCP

and a authentication service in a network of a windows client.

My question is:

What the best authentication infrastructure can I deploy with a SuSE 8.0 server? The best is:

passwd flat file pam most fast, hard to implement failover.

NIS SuSE YAST config, most Info manage(home etc..), failover, no secure

Kerberos No SuSE YAST config, someone tell me strong security, failover.

LDAP no useradd or manage application, hard to deploy, secure?? I think no, not build to make auth, YAST config, failover

Me would suggest, the check LDAP again. There are web interfaces for managing it and a lot of docs that describe the coop with samba and other services !!! To secure it check bugs on secorityfocus and so on. btw - what secure are the network transmissions in your windows network - ssl based ? :O) If you want to have a more fast solution without any work, try to click some services on w2k and look goes on ? :O) Yours Michael