On October 12, 2004 22:41, Shawn wrote: > WRT being stuck if the primary server goes down, I think I'd be in that > boat regardless which authentication method I use - NIS or LDAP (other than > stand alone local authentication).
setting up LDAP replication is amazingly simple. it's a 5 minute (if that) job. that way if the primary server goes south, your systems can fail over gracefully to the secondary. it's also rather nice for when you have multiple physical locations but don't want to rely on your Internet/VPN connection being up and low-latency all the time. i'd also add that a benefit of LDAP over NIS is that virtually _everything_ server side has optional LDAP support these days. the same cannot (and will not) be said for NIS. -- Aaron J. Seigo Society is Geometric
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