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Hello! I am quite new to Coda and now I am investigating the possibility of implementing "sign-once system" with Coda+Kerberos on Linux worksattions. First I want to thank for "Kerberos & Coda - Setup Instructions?" topic (from Jan Harkes, Ivan Popov, Jorge-Lean) - it was of great help to me after a week of trying to make Coda to work along with Kerberos. The point is : so now we have all authentications done in one place (in Kerberos). But still we need two user/uid database (first one intrinsic to Coda and another in realm-wide user database), in other words - the authorization still needs to be done differently. Suppose this "another" (realm-wide) database is implemented wthrough ns-switch with hesiod backend (or any other backend - nis,ldap and friends). So we still have to keep on synch-ing coda users' database with NSS-one. Wouldn't it be possible to make Coda to get its users through ns-switch (instead of "pdbtool" one)? This would have one more side-effect. While I was trying (the "feedback from joeuser" case) to setup coda on my home workstation, it takes me quite a long time to learn that the default password for "admin" Coda user is "changeme". Wouldn't it be better in default case to have Coda to read its users from /etc/passwd - /etc/shadow files (while keeping in mind that lately it can be changed) to make things somethat easier to newcomer? Thank you in advance.Received on 2004-09-29 08:24:18