Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:37:27 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User Accounts across multiple machines Message-ID: <200407221337.27867.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <1090519611.584.1.camel@mgl.magellanhealth.com> <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. -- Kirk Strauser [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBBAAln5sRg+Y0CpvERApyMAJ96EU2G+W4GQRZDAxrfG3mkTHSstACfVYZZ j2zkFY7qN+uMzLEF6BlESc0= =uj2C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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