Network User Verification Tools
It’s all fine and good to know how to authenticate users on a local system. But networks don’t work very well unless users can log into not just a single system but an entire network. Linux includes two basic options for network-based authentication: NIS and LDAP. These are known as directory services.
Of course, you may not want to enable root administrative authentication to all systems with one network login. Even the relatively unsecure NIS system makes it difficult to set up a single root administrative account for a network.
Users on Linux systems can also be configured on Microsoft-based authentication systems. Their usernames and passwords can be translated to Linux usernames and passwords with the right ...
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