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Contents
About This Guide xi
1 Security and Confidentiality 1
1.1 Local Security and Network Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Some General Security Tips and Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3 Using the Central Security Reporting Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Part I Authentication 15
2 Authentication with PAM 17
2.1 Structure of a PAM Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.2 The PAM Configuration of sshd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.3 Configuration of PAM Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4 Configuring PAM Using pam-config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.5 For More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3 Using NIS 27
3.1 Configuring NIS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.2 Configuring NIS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4 LDAP—A Directory Service 35
4.1 LDAP versus NIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.2 Structure of an LDAP Directory Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.3 Configuring an LDAP Server with YaST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.4 Configuring an LDAP Client with YaST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.5 Configuring LDAP Users and Groups in YaST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57