Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 02:47:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: NIS replacement Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009150241340.32705-100000@jason.argos.org>
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We've been using NIS for quite some time to provide auth info, home dir,
and login shell info to a bunch of FBSD machines. So far, it's worked
fairly well, but it's getting to be a pain to administer - we're looking
for something different...
In a nutshell, we're primarily using it to make sure that UIDs and GIDs
stay the same across multiple machines so that the NFS-mounted directories
don't have any ownership problems. This is accomplished through a SQL
database with a perl program that queries the DB and builds the NIS
maps. It works, but it's really ugly.
I've been toying with using RADIUS to handle this, but that only provides
the auth info - do any plans exist (or packages available) to handle home
dirs and login shells via RADIUS? Or any other suggestions?
(Yes, I realize this is kinda vague - it's been a long day...)
Tnx - Mike
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Understated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period:
From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section:
"FreeBSD provides some packet routing facilities."
...duh.......
Mike Nowlin, N8NVW mike@argos.org http://www.viewsnet.com
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