On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:23, Bill Moran wrote: > Ray Seals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and > > want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the > > primary way to do this or is there a better solution? > As far as I understand it, yes. Although Kerberos seems to be a > practical alternative. With 5.x, there is more support for pam, thus > opening up your choices to things like LDAP. Note that Kerberos only provides AAA and not directory services. I recently (within the last 6 months) replaced my old NIS setup with one based on OpenLDAP. It works perfectly across my FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS X machines. NIS did the job, but I won't be rolling it out on new systems ever again. -- Kirk Strauser
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