On 03/12/18 at 18:19, Tomasz Kundera wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 2:40 PM Rowland Penny <rpe...@samba.org > <mailto:rpe...@samba.org>> wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 14:28:25 +0100 > Tomasz Kundera <tnkund...@gmail.com <mailto:tnkund...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > You can still use NIS if you don't need the power (and > complexity) of > > samba. > > > > NIS is a bit outdated and Samba isn't that complex from a Linux point > of view. > > > It is outdated because?
It's unencrypted, hard to firewall, unsecure by design. > It works, at least in simple cases. Yeah, sure, even rsh works (sometimes), still it's a very outdated protocol. > The choice depends on your needs. Samba is not needed everywhere and > yes, it is more complex then a simple NIS installation. My experience differs. NIS relies on a number of RPC services, local and netwide settings (nisdomainname vs. fqdn), server- and client-side commands, files and related DBs that the first time I could get it to work I uncorked the finest sparkling wine I had and rushed to set everything I had done in virtual stone: http://alessandro.route-add.net/Unixalia/configurare_NIS.html (in Italian, sorry). A few years later, my first Samba installations were not as painful and time-consuming, it's all in one config file (well, two with smbpasswd), but maybe that's because I was not using it from Windows PCs. > I do not suggest that samba is a bad choice. It depends on the needs > as I have written above. I suggest to stay away from NIS except in a few cases: 1. it was already setup and configured by someone else and it's working; 2. it's operating in a secure, non critical environment; 3. people in the organization are already familiar with it (ie, they're all grey-haired or bald and gray-bearded or look like Yoda); 4. long-term support is not an issue. In all other instances, run LDAP and/or Samba instead. -- Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE
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