Incoming from Shawn: > > 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
I'm not so sure about the security concerns. For one thing, it centralizes security, leaving you with one or two NIS hosts that you need to concern yourself about, and everything else turns into mere hosts. Even root on the other hosts can't really do anything that the NIS hosts won't allow. He becomes merely another local user. The biggest problem with NIS is the, "I can't do something, because some machine I've never heard of is down" problem. If those central NIS servers tank, the whole thing tanks. The alternative is LDAP, which may be more than what you want (you decide), or centralize your data; move all the big disks to one or two machines, and parcel out Samba shares or NFS exports from there. That way, you won't have a bunch of machines sharing and getting back and forth, which would be a nightmare. Of course, this could be a lot of work. I think your real problem may be that everything's spread all over the place. Any solution's going to be a mere bandaid for that. Either LDAP or NIS can supply that solution. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ 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
