Thanks Aaron. I've spent the time since posting my original message reading up on LDAP, and can see how it would be helpful in the single sign on situation. (I do have some experience with LDAP, thought it's rather limited).
All the information I've found on NIS seems really old and suggests some big security concerns, so I'm already hesitant in using it. The experience may be good, but I'll worry about that another time on a practice server. Based on what I've read, I'll need LDAP and NFS (er, NFSv4). One of the things I'm trying to do is to share my HOSTS file among 2 linux servers and my Suse workstation. It's getting annoying to fix 2 of the 3, then have to troubleshoot/fix the third box - normally at some critical point in time. I can handle this via rsync, but I may as well learn how to setup single sign on... I'll look at installing OpenLDAP later tonight, unless someone can offer a better solution for my needs... I'll do NFS after I have LDAP stabilized. Thanks for the input. Shawn On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:25, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > Or should I be looking at LDAP? > > this is what i'd recommend. it's really not too bad to get set up once > you've done it once or twice. SUSE makes it pretty easy, though you still > have to do the initial set up by hand. > > this would actually make a cool little CLUG presentation, as it is easy to > go through in well under an hour (assuming one doesn't go into all the gory > details and possible options ;) and probably is of fairly high interest. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
