LDAP vs. NIS+
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Nov 15 02:03:27 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:55 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Once again I turn to the smart folks on this list. I'm looking for
> a way to centralize our user management. At the moment I have user
> logins that are scattered across several machines. Ideally I want to
> have one central "accounts" machine, where all the user LOGIN data is
> kept and maintained. Then I would have a shell server, where their
> actual files are kept. Users then connect to this shell server only
> (which then authenticates the user against the "accounts" machine before
> letting them on.) I will also have a web server and mail spool server
> which will have NFS shares, and all of these will have to have some
> record of the user information (UID/GID at the very least) for things to
> work properly. That data should be coming from the central "accounts"
> machine I would think.
>
> I heard that NIS+ can do what I want to do. At the same time, I
> also heard LDAP may be what I want. So which is which? What should I
> consider using? Considering that neither is something I've played with
> extensively (I've done some NIS+ stuff eons ago, but never LDAP) this
> would be a first for me and having to figure things out from the ground up.
>
> What does the general public recommend? And any
> pointers/suggestions you might have are also welcome.
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LDAP is future, NIS is past
Craig
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