From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 18 14:10:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sprig.tougas.net (h24-66-217-148.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.217.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A7437BAA0 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dtougas@sprig.tougas.net) Received: (from dtougas@localhost) by sprig.tougas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA69076 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:12:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from dtougas) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:12:26 -0700 From: Damien Tougas To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Managing multiple servers/workstaions Message-ID: <20000218151226.B68537@tougas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have been wandering around a bit on the internet, looking around to see what tools are available for managing groups of FreeBSD servers and workstations. More just for curiosity than anything. From what I can see, the tools seem to be NFS, NIS, NIS+ (I don't know much about either of these), and perhaps LDAP (to some degree). Are there any comments on any of these systems? Are there others that I'm not aware of? Why would someone use LDAP instead of a straight SQL database? I guess that these options are good in a low security situation, i.e. behind a solid firewall, but what do people do when they want to manage multiple servers in a more secure scenario? -- Damien Tougas, P.Eng. Phone: (780)434-5889 Fax: (780)434-5889 E-mail: damien@tougas.net http://www.tougas.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message