On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:55 -0700, 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. ---- LDAP is future, NIS is past Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
