Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:19:35 -0700 From: faSty <fasty@i-sphere.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized authentication Message-ID: <20020409131935.C20549@i-sphere.com> In-Reply-To: <200204091502.BAA10372@caligula.anu.edu.au>; from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au on Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:02:44AM %2B1000 References: <20020409073815.Q26460-100000@roble.com> <200204091502.BAA10372@caligula.anu.edu.au>
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I dont see any NIS or NIS+ on handbook. I tried setup the NIS+ and I am not experience with these feature. anyone can point where the HOWTO NIS or NIS+? -trev On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:02:44AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > In some mail from Roger Marquis, sie said: > > > > Samuel Chow wrote: > > > How about NIS? I use it at home with a total > > > of two machines and one users. > > > > I've used NIS with over 30,000 users, and adminitered 2 domains > > with over 2,500 users and experienced near zero problems. NIS+ > > may be a bit more difficult given it's Kerberos roots but it is > > being used successfully in shops with hundreds of NIS+ accounts > > and hosts. Adminning Sun NIS servers and clients is neither > > difficult nor complicated even with NFS and automount. Not sure > > if the same is true for FreeBSD servers however. > > Where I work, we have experience with a production NIS+ database of > double the size you have for NIS. After many requests to Sun, we're > given the impression that they know of nobody else using NIS+ to such > a large scale (even to the 1000s or 10,0000s). NIS+ is secure, if you > don't have to do NIS, but you must get all your procedures *correct*, > especially when changing passwords, or you are "fucked". > > Darren > p.s. sorry for the french, but I believe that sums it up perfectly. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Equal bytes for women. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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