Hi all,
NIS is "nice" ie super easy to set up and use but really sadly broken in
that any user can see what's in /etc/shadow.
The only reason why you would want to use it is if you have to support some
NIS-only clients like IRIX O2s AND you never have internet connections from
the LAN.
NIS+ (NIS
We're in the progress of doing this ourselves at the moment. I don't think
it's something you can just "do". I'm reading "Understanding and Deploying
LDAP Directory Services" and doing some research on the net (Google is your
friend). From what I've seen so far moving to LDAP looks like it needs a
I need to upgrade the old auth mechanism at work, because it's
hella-broken (syncing passwd files across machines), and it's come back
to bite me today, so I really want to do soemthing like NIS, only not
NIS.
I'm thinking authentication using either LDAP or Kerberos, so I'd like
comments and tip
