Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

2014-01-28 Thread Logan McNaughton
Where I work we use NIS + Kerberos (Active Directory). We have about 150 machines at our site. It works quite well, as someone said, the big draw back to NIS is that it sends passwords insecurely, but if you use Kerberos for authentication it's really quite easy to manage. On Jan 28, 2014 6:23 AM,

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

2014-01-19 Thread Logan McNaughton
Here is my take (just a CentOS user). The communication from Red Hat/CentOS during this change has been somewhat poor. By reading various blog posts, etc.. A lot of people are confused about what this change actually means. When people read things like CentOS will allow Red Hat to innovate and