On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 16:59 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Call me crazy, but I do all of what you've described below as follows:
>
> NIS Master in US.
> NIS Slaves scattered about the world.
> (No LDAP.)
> (No AD, although it might be a possibility)
>
> WAN goes down, nobody cares. (Well, all the systems stay up and usable.)
> No separation of which-password-where.
> Create a user here, it appears everywhere.
>
> The only problem I've ever had was - One time, one nis slave got out of sync
> with the server. So I had to re- ypinit the slave, and that was the end of
> that.
>
> This is for a multinational company, but only for about 50 users within that
> company. Up for about 18 months now.
The big sell for AD in these environments (that I have seen) is the
multimaster capabilities.
WAN goes down, people can still modify/add/remove accounts.
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--MCP
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