User Accounts across multiple machines

[Bill Moran]

Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:23, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Ray Seals <rseals at vdsi.net> wrote:
> 
> > > I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and
> > > want to synch all the machines userid and passwords.  Is NIS still the
> > > primary way to do this or is there a better solution?
> 
> > As far as I understand it, yes.  Although Kerberos seems to be a
> > practical alternative.  With 5.x, there is more support for pam, thus
> > opening up your choices to things like LDAP.
> 
> Note that Kerberos only provides AAA and not directory services.
> 
> I recently (within the last 6 months) replaced my old NIS setup with one 
> based on OpenLDAP.  It works perfectly across my FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS 
> X machines.  NIS did the job, but I won't be rolling it out on new systems 
> ever again.

Were you able to make this work well with 4.x machines?  It's been a while
since I tried, but I had problems with nss turning UIDs back into names.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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