On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:03:09PM -0800, Justin Zygmont wrote: > 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. *CONFIGURING* NIS is not difficult. That's true. It's much easier than configuring LDAP. But *USING* NIS is a very very very bad idea, unless you have no need of security whatsoever in your environment. It is inherently insecure, and can not be secured. NIS+ is a *little* better, but it is an unweildy beast, and not really well-supported on Linux. Not at all worth the hastle. LDAP is by far the better way to go, in every respect except for initial configuration. And even that isn't too bad, if you find good docs to help. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D
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