Distributed authentication. Which one?

[Francisco]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Tillman Hodgson wrote:

> It has some interoperability and security issues. They're solvable, IMO.

Thanks for the feedback.

I guess a good test is to ask.. what would you use? :-)


> For example, most of the security concerns can be addressed with a
> combination of transport-mode IPsec and Kerberos and I avoid inter-
> operability issues by avoiding weird implementations of NIS ;-)

Sounds like more trouble than it's worth.
Right now I am leaning towards Kerberos or LDAP.
Need to learn more about them to see their strengths and weaknesses and 
how it would fit into our existing extructure.