On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:28:23PM +0100, James Pearson wrote:
easily set up. Some of the nice things about NIS on Linux are:
It is fairly simple to set up
Comes with built in server redundancy and failover
Has simple server load balancing built in
Very lightweight on the client
It's
Iain Morris wrote:
And NIS servers belong in a museum! :-)
Although NIS has a number of issues against it - it still has some
pretty good things going for it. If you are on a private network and
security is not a high priority, then NIS is something that can be
easily set up. Some of the
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 21:52 -0700, Iain Morris wrote:
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com
wrote:
This discussion completely ignores the fact that user
authentication is
just one of the many things
Iain Morris wrote:
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com
mailto:craigwh...@azapple.com wrote:
This discussion completely ignores the fact that user authentication is
just one of the many things LDAP does. If all you are going to do with
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
And I'd at *least* go to NIS+. openLDAP is an unbelievable pain, but
Nobody in their right mind uses NIS+. Even Sun have stopped it.
When I did
No one seems to like AD. I actually find it to be fairly manageable compared
to stock LDAP/Kerberos. The management tools blow OpenLDAP out of the
water. I laugh at myself saying it, but if you want simple management of a
big installation, AD is pretty dang tested these days and it's not hard to
No one seems to like AD. I actually find it to be fairly manageable compared
to stock LDAP/Kerberos. The management tools blow OpenLDAP out of the
water. I laugh at myself saying it, but if you want simple management of a
big installation, AD is pretty dang tested these days and it's not
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Iain Morris iain.t.mor...@gmail.com wrote:
No one seems to like AD. I actually find it to be fairly manageable compared
to stock LDAP/Kerberos. The management tools blow OpenLDAP out of the
water. I laugh at myself saying it, but if you want simple management of
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 21:40 -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Iain Morris iain.t.mor...@gmail.com wrote:
No one seems to like AD. I actually find it to be fairly manageable compared
to stock LDAP/Kerberos. The management tools blow OpenLDAP out of the
water. I laugh at
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote:
This discussion completely ignores the fact that user authentication is
just one of the many things LDAP does. If all you are going to do with
LDAP is simple user group management then you have a lack of
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/
On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/
On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:
On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Don Krause
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 15:40
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?
On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote
Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/
On 10/1/10 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for
many people still use NIS?
On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-n
is-accounts-under
James Pearson wrote:
Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
And I'd at *least* go to NIS+. openLDAP is an unbelievable pain, but
Nobody in their right mind uses NIS+. Even Sun have stopped it.
When I did Solaris 2.4 training NIS+ took 2 chapters of the manual. When
I did Solaris 9
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
And I'd at *least* go to NIS+. openLDAP is an unbelievable pain, but
Nobody in their right mind uses NIS+. Even Sun have stopped it.
When I did Solaris 2.4 training NIS+ took 2 chapters of the manual.
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
And I'd at *least* go to NIS+. openLDAP is an unbelievable pain, but
Nobody in their right mind uses NIS+. Even Sun have stopped it.
When
Boris Epstein wrote:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
snip
When
I did Solaris 9 training it took 2 sentences. Yes, NIS+ may be more
secure than NIS, but it's a FPOS to use
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:46 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
*shrug* I've never used it. Trust me, openLDAP is a royal PITA, but with
AD as an alternative
well AD *is* LDAP but it has many other services/requirements beyond
LDAP.
As for OpenLDAP being a royal PITA, I suppose that's a
Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:46 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
*shrug* I've never used it. Trust me, openLDAP is a royal PITA, but with
AD as an alternative
well AD *is* LDAP but it has many other services/requirements beyond
LDAP.
As for OpenLDAP being a royal
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Craig White wrote:
As for OpenLDAP being a royal PITA, I suppose that's a matter of
perspective because I've been using it for at least 7 years now and it
works for me without any problems whatsoever.
Agreed. I have found that LDAP, in the guise of OpenLDAP, is not very
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Craig White wrote:
As for OpenLDAP being a royal PITA, I suppose that's a matter of
perspective because I've been using it for at least 7 years now and
it
works for me without any problems whatsoever.
Agreed. I have
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:16:49PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
Agreed. I have found that LDAP, in the guise of OpenLDAP, is not very
difficult at all once you have done your first setup, providing, as Craig
says, you take the time to understand why you're doing what you're doing
and you
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:47:09PM -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Craig White wrote:
As for OpenLDAP being a royal PITA, I suppose that's a matter of
perspective because I've been using it for at least 7 years
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:47:09PM -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Craig White wrote:
As for OpenLDAP being a royal PITA, I suppose that's a matter of
perspective
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 02:47:09PM -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Craig White wrote:
As for OpenLDAP being a royal PITA, I suppose that's a matter of
perspective
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to
anything but NIS thus far. See here:
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