Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:46:57 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User Accounts across multiple machines Message-ID: <20040722144657.0000ac03.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200407221337.27867.kirk@strauser.com> References: <1090519611.584.1.camel@mgl.magellanhealth.com> <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <200407221337.27867.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:23, Bill Moran wrote: > > Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> wrote: > > > > I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and > > > want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the > > > primary way to do this or is there a better solution? > > > As far as I understand it, yes. Although Kerberos seems to be a > > practical alternative. With 5.x, there is more support for pam, thus > > opening up your choices to things like LDAP. > > Note that Kerberos only provides AAA and not directory services. > > I recently (within the last 6 months) replaced my old NIS setup with one > based on OpenLDAP. It works perfectly across my FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS > X machines. NIS did the job, but I won't be rolling it out on new systems > ever again. Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines? It's been a while since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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