[NTLUG:Discuss] NIS no longer developed?

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Wed Aug 6 17:34:41 CDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 12:14, Chris Cox wrote:
> > If so, what replacement are people using to centralize
> > password management in a mixed environment (Linux and
> > Windows)?
> 
> IMHO, NIS works, and the others don't.  Oh.. you can
> spend several months getting OpenLDAP to work, but
> certainly not across the enterprise (all Unix/Windows/etc.)
> and the schemas are under HEAVY flux and will continue
> to be so for at LEAST another year or so (that from
> Gerald Carter).  

OK, we know how you feel about LDAP ;^), but does anyone have any
opinions on kerberos? 

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`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
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