RE: password synch

["Kurt Goolsbee" <kurt.goolsbee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You wouldn't use Kerberos to synchronize passwords.  For the iSeries your
Kerberos server is used as an alternate authentication service.  So when a
user authenticates to the iSeries with a Kerberos ticket the users OS400
password is never checked.  In fact, you can eliminate the users password
altogether (*NONE).  

Kurt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Charmatz
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:03 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: password synch
> 
> I read some archive posts and didn't really see any reponses to this....
> 
> We currently have an LPARed V5R3 system.  The problem is the overhead
> keeping users and their password synched up.  Which leads me into the
> following question:
> We are setting up a HATS application to use a web browser for users to
> access the 400.  We have set up a single partition to act as the host and
> are using a pass through (menu option) to the other partitions.  The
> problem
> here is that the user has to enter their password on the intial login to
> the
> the host server, and then again to the production server.  In a perfect
> environment, users passwords would be synched up from the initial setup,
> however, this isn't a per4fect environment.  Is there anyway to keep base
> 400 user profiles syched up between partitions without manual
> intervention?
> My initial thought on this would be to use a single login environment
> using
> kerberos to synch up the passwords.  Has anyone attempted this?
> 
> On a similar note, we have shared drives setup on our 400 which end users
> use to upload files.  The problem here is that in order to access these
> shared drives, client access requires (at least on our system) the Windows
> user name and password to be identical to the AS400 user name and passowrd
> which also creates a lot of overhead each times a user is required to
> switch
> either their AS400 or Windows password.  Assuming I don't setup a single
> login enviroment, is there anyway around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David Charmatz
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