389DS + sssd probably are the best replacements, especially given they are supported by SUSE - however they understandably add a lot of overhead for people coming from pure NIS. I understand both sides here and I think it comes down to it not being feasible to maintain NIS further whilst there not being a similarly legacy alternative to NIS - nowadays, local networks either run LDAP/Kerberos, use some configuration management software taking care of updating /etc/[passwd|group|sudoers], or shift to cloud services. :-( On 2/4/22 13:35, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2022-02-04 13:21, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
I disagree. NIS still works, and does what it is supposed to.
LDAP for this usecase was a major PITA last I looked (ok, 15 years back), even the userid lookup was orders of magnitude slower (and this was in a
Isn't that because NIS copies the user database to where it is used? LDAP doesn't, by default. You have to explicitly make a replica if indeed you want such.
Alternatively, there is sssd, and sssd has caching, so it's only slow on the very first load.