Re: NIS or not?

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> -----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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