On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:55 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Nick LeRoy
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.
In a simple setup, NIS will share hostname/ip address maps, userid, password & shadow information. It can also share automounter maps, etc. -Nick -- /`-_ Nicholas R. LeRoy The Condor Project { }/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~nleroy http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor \ / nleroy@cs.wisc.edu The University of Wisconsin |_*_| 608-265-5761 Department of Computer Sciences