Orn: You mentioned some of LDAP's advantages, I'm looking for more information on LDAP integration to a relatively standard 8.1 installation. I'm adding 20 remote users to the system and I want to setup an extensive database about them. Information like authentication, access rights, per user application setups, single login, remote and local profiles. I'm moving to 8.2 now but think I will wait 3 months for the dust to settle on 9.0. I have a book, "Directory Enabled Networks" 1st ed., which has a fair amount of detail of the ideas of LDAP. I believe OpenLDAP was developed here in Ann Arbor by some people at the University of Michigan. So the stage is set for me to give it a try. It is always good to start from a standard working setup, LDAP, and modify from there. What is a simple, quick, and clean starting setup for LDAP? How would that affect other packages like DNS, DHCP, PAM,.....etc. ? Which LDAP database browsers do you like for X or the console? Are there any LDAP newbie sites you know? Örn Hansen wrote:
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 ;-)
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