Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:45:11 +0100 From: Julien Cigar <jcigar@ulb.ac.be> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized DB of "system" users Message-ID: <1229089511.2753.34.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> In-Reply-To: <20081212141156.E4001@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <139b44430812112348k5c51072ie771913c982f7cfe@mail.gmail.com> <49422A05.6050907@gmail.com> <ghtdp3$g0r$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081212120557.V3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <9bbcef730812120426t3c4b8a28q337c8379cd947702@mail.gmail.com> <20081212141156.E4001@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:12 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> this case (though it's very complicated to set up, especially the first > >> > >> why it is "right" solution? > > > > Interoperability. Today, with Linux, tomorrow, Windows or Mac OS X. > > so not "right" but interoperable. if i do have only unix systems in LAN, > NIS is much better easier and faster. > > for windows-only LAN with unix server, simply using samba is OK. > Here all the machines use OpenLDAP with pam_ldap and nss_ldap with /home mounted on the file server, so that an user can login on every machine and find back his /home. We've also a domain controller which uses Samba and the same LDAP database. So you create the account once and the users can automatically login on the unix and windows machines. It works pretty well. I don't know NIS so much, but I think that LDAP has two advantages : the protocol, and it's use of (extensible) schemes. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52
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