From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 15 5:57:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAF837B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 05:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053E643F93 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 05:57:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([192.168.31.50]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1FDsK3B006169; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:54:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:55:41 +0100 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Personal Reply-To: Alex X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <833792222.20030215145541@dds.nl> To: BSD Freak Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: A modern BSD UNIX workgroup - how would you do it? In-Reply-To: <27c344427c532e.27c532e27c3444@mbox.com.au> References: <27c344427c532e.27c532e27c3444@mbox.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear/Beste BSD, Saturday, February 15, 2003, 9:10:55 AM, you wrote: > I have an upcoming project to create a modern UNIX (mainly > FreeBSD-based) workgroup computing environment. > If _YOU_ had your chance to do it from scratch, what technologies would > you use? Basically only following are set in stone. Everything else is > up to me: > 1. Centralised user/password/account management > 2. 2-3 file servers running FreeBSD, 1 mail server and 1 VPN gateway > also running FreeBSD > 3. Workstations will be 75% FreeBSD and 25% Mac OS X 10.2 > Most people I have spoken to automatically say NIS/NFS. Although I know > that NIS/NFS is a tried and true combination, I can't help but feel > there must be a better way to do a modern BSD UNIX environment. As silly > as it may sound I am seriously thinking about running Samba for file > sharing services even though this is a fully UNIX environment. > Reasons for this include excellent performance on FreeBSD and better > security than NFS. > Some of the other authentication/account management technologies I'm > evaluating include LDAP and Kerberos. Any and comments/suggestions would > be very well received... > Basically what I'm asking is if you could do it all over from scratch > how would you do a modern BSD UNIX workgroup? Backward compatiblity is somwat important and since NIS/NFS is a succesfull combination i would use that with kerbidos. If i needed to link other platforms, without NIS/NFS support, then i would also use LDAP transparent. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message