Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[John Pettigrew <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a previous message, Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Should I perhaps look at LDAP instead? I know nothing about either, but
> > some swift research has suggested that NIS is being supplanted by LDAP for
> > some reason.
> 
> Depends on your usage, actually.  For a private home network, NIS should do
> just fine.  You certainly wouldn't want to expose it to the external world,
> but, that goes for NFS, also.

Fair enough  :-)

> I've heard rumors of people using LDAP for user management, but I've never
> actually seen it done.  People I know that are somewhat knowledgable in LDAP
> say "yeah you can do it, but you probably don't want to".  Stick to NIS
> unless you have a real reason not to.  My $0.02 worth, at least.

Fairy Nuff.

What does NIS actually do for me? (Real ignoramus in this respect!) I was
guessing that simply sharing the home directory would be all I need so I was a
little confused by the suggestion that something else was needed.

Thanks,

John
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