best way to share user data in a computer centre?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:45:58AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 09:07 AM, Mike Kallies wrote:
> > Note that because NFS uses UID and GID, you'll need to ensure
> > consistency of those values in the /etc/passwd files among the machines.
> 
> Sounds like NIS is the perfect candidate since that's what it is
> designed for :) Also, since the machines on the network are largely
> isolated from the outside by way of NAT, securing the directory
> shouldn't be much work at all.

NIS is also compeltely awful.

LDAP is much more robust, but also much harder to setup.  NIS is just
not worth it though.  I would rather setup cron jobs to rsync password
files around than deal with NIS ever again (which was in fact what I
did the last time I had to deal with NIS problems).

LDAP is the modern and supported way to do it.  NIS is just a bad joke
on the part of SUN (to go along with portmap and NFS).  They are all
awful.  Unfortunately we don't seem to have any good replacements for
NFS yet, but we certainly have better choices than NIS.

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Len Sorensen
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