From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 13:44:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FCF106564A for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:44:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be (mxin.ulb.ac.be [164.15.128.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44918FC18 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:44:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlUBABb3QUmkD30E/2dsb2JhbAAIw14IAYtJgWwIAYEG Received: from bebif01.ulb.ac.be (HELO [10.0.0.194]) ([164.15.125.4]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2008 14:44:41 +0100 From: Julien Cigar To: Wojciech Puchar In-Reply-To: <20081212141156.E4001@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <139b44430812112348k5c51072ie771913c982f7cfe@mail.gmail.com> <49422A05.6050907@gmail.com> <20081212120557.V3687@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <9bbcef730812120426t3c4b8a28q337c8379cd947702@mail.gmail.com> <20081212141156.E4001@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:45:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1229089511.2753.34.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Ivan Voras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized DB of "system" users X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:44:43 -0000 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