There is a benefit to it as well. Especially when LDAP is concerned, as Unix/Linux don't allow you to use login names, such as "My Greater Name here", while this is perfectly ok within LDAP. Not to mention mail aliases, and if you have a good ldap browser/explorer it's much simpler to maintain than even the normal user base, via yast. On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:17, fsanta wrote:
Just to support what has been said I feel that NIS/NFS would be overkill on a 2 node network. If it is an excercise in learning how to setup a larger lan then that's fine. Go ahead. NIS is wonderful on a big lan. NIS and NFS documentation is written by Linux users. Sometimes it's even worse than man pages. Unless you can tempt the last poster to translate it for you. My 0.02 Euros ;-)