Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 06:40:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA> Cc: Vinay Bannai <vinay@agni.nuko.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a common passwd file among machines Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970421063454.13322A-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <199704211328.JAA07167@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca>
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On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Yves Lepage wrote: > In surface this is right. However, NIS does database lookups instead of sequential > file access (non-FreeBSD systems) and that's one of the better reasons of existence > of NIS. With a few thousands of users, sequential search becomes rather heavy. indexed database can be used just fine locally. > > IMO, NIS is fine, given you have reliable networks and reliable servers and at > least one slave. Networks can be reliable, but if any network problem makes large parts of network inoperable just because they can't access authentication server, overall fault tolerance of the network becomes too low, especially for ISPs. -- Alex
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