best way to share user data in a computer centre?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:53:04AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> For what Matt has described, NFS+NIS is simple, and will work. I agree
> that LDAP would be better, but it doesn't sound like there's much time
> to spend setting things up.

I just remember the amount of trouble NIS caused on Solaris (which of
all places is where it should work).  What a nightmare.  So unreliable.

> Also, NFS works for pushing directories and data around on a home
> network, and on commercially supported 10GbE NAS units from major
> vendors. What's the issue with it?

It uses portmap.
It uses uid/gid for mapping users.
It trusts the client implicitly for authentication.

Need anymore problems?

I still don't know of something better widely supported unfortunately.

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