Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:09:06 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> To: Robin Huiser <listmail@node10c55.a2000.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LDAP or NIS? Message-ID: <19990825190906.A5571@fisicc-ufm.edu> In-Reply-To: <199908251815.UAA04709@node10c55.a2000.nl> References: <199908251815.UAA04709@node10c55.a2000.nl>
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On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:15:22PM +0200, Robin Huiser wrote: > Hi! > > Having multiple FreeBSD servers I was wondering which program to use to manage logins, passwords, permissions, etc... > > Please give me some advise... > NIS. LDAP doesn't really work. there are some issues involved that were discussed a while ago, but it boils down to to all of the get*by* functions in the C library being unable to get user info via ldap. the conclusion was that we needed the nsswitch funcionality that solaris and linux have. see the lists for more info. hint: search for NSS. regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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