Re: LDAP vs. NIS+

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx		Spamtrap address mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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