On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:02:53PM +1100, Matt Hyne wrote:
>
> Guys, I have number of linux boxes here and I want to only have one place that
>username/passwords are stored (for admin reasons). Rather than go the full overkill
>and set up NIS, is LDAP (or something else) a better alternative.
>
> Anyone with experience - any interesting links ?
I'd recommend you use LDAP
- if everything is part of the same physical network/site it'll be fine (i.e
LAN)
- if machines are widely distributed around the world (ala debian.org) then
you'll probably be better off generating and distributing /etc/passwd (and co)
so that authentication isn't tied to some machine in greenland when you are
in brisbane.
Anand
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