Web wrote regarding '[SLE] LDAP vs. NIS Question' on Fri, Oct 29 at 18:49:
The new 9.2 manual addresses the very question I was about to pose to the list - whether to use LDAP or NIS. It just seems to me to make sense to implement NFS, and use PAM/LDAP for user authentication & directory service. If that doesn't make sense, I'd love to hear why not. Put another way, is there a good argument to use NIS in favor of LDAP? Any other issues I should be aware of here?
If you plan to work with some antique software (on other operating systems) or stuff that's not PAM/NSS aware, NIS may work better. Then again, NIS sucks in about every way, so LDAP's a much better choice in almost every situation. :) --Danny, who dislikes LDAP just because it seems non-intuitive and/or excessively verbose, but likes that it works well