[SSSD-users] Re: sssd and NIS?

[Hauke Fath]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 17:26:50 +0000, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> Why you need NIS?

It stores data for identifying and authorizing users(*) centrally, and 
distributes them to clients.
> It does not make any sense to me.
> There are only 2 scenarios makings sense:
> you go for SSSD (no need for NIS)

SSSD is a caching proxy for (mainly) identification and authorization 
data. It has to get this data from one or more backends - like NIS.
> you stick with NIS (no need for SSSD)

And no client-side caching, which is what I want.

Cheerio,
Hauke

* discounting automounter maps for now