> > this may or may not be reason to worry, depending on whether or not > > you trust the yp server. NIS (in)security is a chapter of its > > own. (and personally, I think it's high time something else comes > > along. the beauty of NIS is that it works and is widely supported.) > > Like LDAP?
It may just be me (and let's be frank: My knowledge of LDAP consists of knowing what it stands for and that's it), but setting up the LDAP server was a pain in the ass last time I tried. Setting up the YP server took half an hour, tops. I have a developer network running on NIS/NFS right now, simply because even though it pains me every time I think about it, that's the only thing that worked pretty much out-of-the-box and this being what it is there simply is no time to spend a couple days on setting up LDAP and OpenAFS or Coda. If you want to do me - and tons of other people, I guess, a favour, write a script that'll initialize an LDAP server (easy enough to install) and set it up so that it handles user authentications. I looked at freshmeat and other sources and found nothing. If someone can point me to an easy-to-setup LDAP thingy, I'll switch the developer network over on the same day.
