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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:07:57AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> BSD Freak 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?
>
> If (and it's a fairly large "if") nss_ldap was supported by FreeBSD, and
> if ldap authentication were supported by MacOS X, then I would go with
> LDAP.
> But 4.X doesn't support nss_ldap, and I'm not even sure if 5.x does yet.
> I have no clue whether MacOS X does or not.
> Unless I had a concern about someone sniffing my local network, I'd use
> NFS for file sharing. I think it's still the cleanest, even if it's not
> the fastest.
And if you are concerned about somebody sniffing, why not use IPSEC?
m&f
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What do you care what other people think?
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