Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > The places I have seen it still being used are in
Universities run by
> > people who learned sysadmin in the 1990's and early 2000's. It is a
> > light weight system which is simple to set up [...]
>
> For those people who like simple to set up and working systems but are
> willing to consider upgrading if it's also simple and will keep working,
> is there a NIS->$whatever migration document in fedora someplace?
I don't think anyone has come up with an agreed upon $whatever that a
majority of people like. There is LDAP but that isn't light. There are
kerberos but that isn't easy.
"light" in terms of CPU/network, who cares. "light" in terms of
simplicity and maintenance, you have my attention. If there is no such
gadget available, then please let's keep NIS around.
And honestly the cool kids only want web logins these days as
servers
are a pain and why not just login into Google/Facebook/Microsoft and
let them deal with all that setup.
(OK but seriously that's not a fedora matter. Well, or rather, I'd love
to have a passwd/nss backed openid gadget. Is that ipsilon?)
- FChE