Re: NIS or LDAP userid/password server?

[Mark <mark@bish.net>]

NIS is great - if you know what you are doing.  As Rich once saw the
bastard network that was/is the multimedia center in the basement on the
Comm building - it works OK when confronted with a plethora of operating
systems (WindowsNT/Linux/Mac/Irix) but if all you have is Linux go with
LDAP, unless you like pain then go right ahead and get NIS running.

If you really want NIS and don't want the headache - feel free to hire me
*grin*




On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Brune, Charlie wrote:

> I have more than one Linux machine at home.  Lucky me.
> 
> I'd really like to avoid having to set up userid's and passwords each time I
> reload a machine.  I have one machine that rarely gets rebuilt.
> 
> So... would it be hard to set up that machine as an NIS or LDAP server and just
> instruct the other machines to look to it to validate logins?
> 
> I looked at the "NIS Howto", but got hopelessly lost.
> 
> Thanks a heap,
> Charlie
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