From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 7:37:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-46-094.guate.net [200.12.46.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131E815B39 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA05583; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:09:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:09:06 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Robin Huiser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LDAP or NIS? Message-ID: <19990825190906.A5571@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <199908251815.UAA04709@node10c55.a2000.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <199908251815.UAA04709@node10c55.a2000.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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