Re: Best Network setup for linux/unix

[David L. Parsley (lkml account)]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> >     I need some suggestions on setting up a unix server farm that all =
> > gets authenticated from a single server. What is the best way of doing =
> > this?
> 
> Advice #1: Don't do it. Not for servers. Otherwise the failure of your 
> authentication host leaves you dead in the water.
> 
> > I know I could use NIS but is that really the best way to do it? The =
> 
> NIS works, its not terribly secure. LDAP is more powerful but a bugger
> to set up

Yup, I think RedHat jumped the gun a tad with the phrase 'integrated LDAP'
- but I managed pam & nss ldap on the laptop (and now I'll implement at
the college).  I agree a monolithic auth server is a single point of
failure and bad.  Is there a nice way to do failover w/ LDAP?  (I don't
remember anything from pam_ldap and nss_ldap)  Heartbeating and such
would make it a _real_ bugger to set up. 

David

> 
> > problem we are having is that we are using two cobalts, one intel web =
> > server, and finally one intel mail server. I want a centralized =
> 
> NIS works across OS's and across platforms. Well mostly anyway 8)
> 
> Alan
> 
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David L. Parsley
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City of Salem Schools

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