> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Pete Geenhuizen > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:12 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: NIS or not? > > I used NIS for many years while working on Sun Solaris and it worked > extremely well, although when it breaks it can be a real challenge to > figure out the problems. > I don't know how well it's implemented in Linux, bound to be a bit > different than Solaris. In either case if it's important be aware of > the potential security issues related to NIS, mainly the clear text > passing of the password which is what pretty much doomed it. Yeah, that last bit made me squirm over here. I don't feel good about that, even though the linux machines are all pretty much localized to one spot, so that hardly any traffic goes out of the department. > With all of that said I do think though that LDAP would be a better > solution although I've not used LDAP. > > Good luck with it either way. Thanks. I'll look into LDAP some more. //Sorin
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