[wplug] nis replacement

[Poyner, Brandon]

Have you considered moving to LDAP?  

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf Of John
Harrold
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:40 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] nis replacement

Sometime in March Michael P. O Connor assaulted the keyboard and
produced:

| for passwords, why not, not distrubute the password files, and just
have
| a central login server, kerbros comes to mind.  and for shard files, I
| hear alot of talk about XFS could that work for you?

I'm looking for a more generic solution. Right now, I can modify
something
on the server and the effects are more or less immediate. I don't have
to
run a script that I wrote, I simply rebuild the nis maps, restart
ypserv,
and changes that I made to /etc/hosts,  /etc/auto.*, etc on the server
are
relevant to all of our computers. I'm not sure how having files on a
different file system (XFS) is going to make the available to other
computers on the network.

Right now NIS works fine, but if there is something better I'm all ears.

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