From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 7:57:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marithe.recluse.net (marithe.recluse.net [216.200.139.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D4C14E87 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandon@recluse.net) Received: by marithe.recluse.net (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 44ABD5851; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by marithe.recluse.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D278A; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:56:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Brandon Huey To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: Robin Huiser , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LDAP or NIS? In-Reply-To: <19990825190906.A5571@fisicc-ufm.edu> Message-ID: X-Copyright: (C)1999 Brandon Huey; Forwarding prohibited MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i think that if this question is being asked, then it's safe to say you aren;t ready to commit to LDAPifying your network. getting LDAP working, getting LDAP authenticating in order to replace NIS takes quite a bit of work. you can get NIS running within 30 minutes of cracking a manpage, then you can plan your LDAP rollout. that's how i recommend doing things. On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message