Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines? It's been a while since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
