On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:02:53PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote: > Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that >username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill >and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative.
why is nis or ldap overkill? compared to setting up cron jobs and ssh keys to rsync files around, and then worrying about locking and atomic copying and testing the whole lot to where you're actually comfortable it recovers from errors safely, you may as well just install slapd, libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap and run one of the padl.com scripts to import an existing /etc/passwd. nis is potentially quicker to setup, but by the time you learn all the quirks of nis, you'll take longer. and once you've got it setup, you'll wish you'd chosen ldap instead. go for ldap. its good. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
