Distributed authentication. Which one?

[Francisco Reyes]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Peter Clutton wrote:

> Well questions of which one are all a matter of opinion. LDAP is an
> established implementation of the .x500 standard, and the open version
> OpenLDAP can run with a mysql backend. It sounds like it would fulfil
> your needs.

Will take a look.

> Kerberos is an authentication protocol rather than a directory

So Kerberos would be more along the lines of users login in to the 
machines?

> service, and NIS is a simple directory service introduced by Sun.

Between LDAP and NIS which one would you consider to be:
1- More secure
2- Easier to maintain