lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wanting to setup some form of Centralized user authentication for my home > gentoo network and was wondering what ppl here recommend. > I have had a bit of a look at NIS, and OpenLDAP. NIS from what i have read seams > to be a bit insecure and outdated, and OpenLDAP seams to be over kill.
Overkill would be OpenAFS + Kerberos + OpenLDAP. Just OpenLDAP is not particularly difficult to set up. I did have to write some shell scripts to perform user administration tasks, although it is possible that there is some package that does it. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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