LDAP vs. NIS+
Tom Diehl
tdiehl at rogueind.com
Tue Nov 15 16:01:51 UTC 2005
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:03:09PM -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Aly Dharshi wrote:
> >
> > >LDAP is hands down the way to go, even Sun says that NIS+ maybe deprecated
> > >in future releases, its a freaking pain in the ass. NIS+ is no being
> > >actively developed for Linux, NIS+ is a good exercise in self-inflicted
> > >pain (which I will have to go thru' starting 2morrow).
> > >
> > >Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Once again I turn to the smart folks on this list. I'm looking for a
> > >>way to centralize our user management. At the moment I have user logins
> > >>that are scattered across several machines. Ideally I want to have one
> > >>central "accounts" machine, where all the user LOGIN data is kept and
> > >>maintained. Then I would have a shell server, where their actual files
> > >>are kept. Users then connect to this shell server only (which then
> > >>authenticates the user against the "accounts" machine before letting them
> > >>on.) I will also have a web server and mail spool server which will have
> > >>NFS shares, and all of these will have to have some record of the user
> > >>information (UID/GID at the very least) for things to work properly.
> > >>That data should be coming from the central "accounts" machine I would
> > >>think.
> > >>
> > >> I heard that NIS+ can do what I want to do. At the same time, I also
> > >>heard LDAP may be what I want. So which is which? What should I
> > >>consider using? Considering that neither is something I've played with
> > >>extensively (I've done some NIS+ stuff eons ago, but never LDAP) this
> > >>would be a first for me and having to figure things out from the ground
> > >>up.
> > >>
> > >> What does the general public recommend? And any pointers/suggestions
> > >>you might have are also welcome.
> >
> > I found NIS not all that bad, considering the work involved integrating
> > all your services to use LDAP, it may not be all that bad if your needs
> > are simple.
> >
> I am still waiting for someone to explain how to get a fedora system
> to authenticate using a Windows authentication server.
>
> Anyone know.
Most if not all of the answers are in here:
http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/
There is also a dead tree version available if you are so inclined.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
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