Quick security question

[Phil Thayer]

Most of the OS's currently on the market can use a single sign-on
capability with Kerberos or something similar to that.  Using a single
sign-on functionality is convenient to the user as well as reducing the
systems administration tasks involved with create/modifying/deleting
users.


> 
> This is complicated by the fact that some parts of the country would
> routinely set up Unix users with names like 'user12' for the person
> who logs into the app as '12'.  The passwords for these things are, of
> course, set in different ways, and managed in different places.  It's
> possible for our app to have a custom menu option that calls  passwd
> to set the Unix password for a user; it's important that the person
> understand this distinction.  (The actual passwd binary probably was
> originally written as a gnu drop-in replacement for the SysV passwd.)
>