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.
