Dear/Beste BSD, Saturday, February 15, 2003, 9:10:55 AM, you wrote:
> I have an upcoming project to create a modern UNIX (mainly > FreeBSD-based) workgroup computing environment. > If _YOU_ had your chance to do it from scratch, what technologies would > you use? Basically only following are set in stone. Everything else is > up to me: > 1. Centralised user/password/account management > 2. 2-3 file servers running FreeBSD, 1 mail server and 1 VPN gateway > also running FreeBSD > 3. Workstations will be 75% FreeBSD and 25% Mac OS X 10.2 > Most people I have spoken to automatically say NIS/NFS. Although I know > that NIS/NFS is a tried and true combination, I can't help but feel > there must be a better way to do a modern BSD UNIX environment. As silly > as it may sound I am seriously thinking about running Samba for file > sharing services even though this is a fully UNIX environment. > Reasons for this include excellent performance on FreeBSD and better > security than NFS. > Some of the other authentication/account management technologies I'm > evaluating include LDAP and Kerberos. Any and comments/suggestions would > be very well received... > Basically what I'm asking is if you could do it all over from scratch > how would you do a modern BSD UNIX workgroup? Backward compatiblity is somwat important and since NIS/NFS is a succesfull combination i would use that with kerbidos. If i needed to link other platforms, without NIS/NFS support, then i would also use LDAP transparent. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
