But if you're not ready for potato then NIS will provide a ready-made solution. It's pretty straightforward. I'd be glad to offer assistance. As for a comparison, well, they're different. NIS has been around a long time, LDAP is newer.
Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 07:59:56PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > > > > We've got a number of machines here that we need to switch to > > centralized account maintenance, and I was trying to figure out what > > the best solution would be. It looks like the two main solutions > > would be NIS or ldap (via PAM), but I'm having a hard time finding out > > enough about the ldap solution to do a good comparison. Is there a > > good HOWTO or similar somewhere? Is there some other solution I've > > overlooked. (I thought about just using a cron job and a sync script > > to keep all the passwd/group files in sync, but that requires you to > > be able to atomically update the files, and I couldn't see a good way > > to do that...perhaps some trick with chpasswd/add/deluser... > > Our good admin is already in the midst of setting up an LDAP based > account system. For info on what is being used for this please see > www.openldap.com and www.padl.com for the OpenLDAP and > nss_ldap/pam_ldap (all three of which are packaged in potato) programs. > > -- > ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux > OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation > ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - -- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
