Re: [RFC] Remove supoort for NIS(+) from PAM

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Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > The places I have seen it still being used are in Universities run by
>> > people who learned sysadmin in the 1990's and early 2000's. It is a
>> > light weight system which is simple to set up [...]
>>
>> For those people who like simple to set up and working systems but are
>> willing to consider upgrading if it's also simple and will keep working,
>> is there a NIS->$whatever migration document in fedora someplace?
>
> I don't think anyone has come up with an agreed upon $whatever that a
> majority of people like. There is LDAP but that isn't light. There are
> kerberos but that isn't easy. 

"light" in terms of CPU/network, who cares.  "light" in terms of
simplicity and maintenance, you have my attention.  If there is no such
gadget available, then please let's keep NIS around.


> And honestly the cool kids only want web logins these days as servers
> are a pain and why not just login into Google/Facebook/Microsoft and
> let them deal with all that setup.

(OK but seriously that's not a fedora matter.  Well, or rather, I'd love
to have a passwd/nss backed openid gadget.  Is that ipsilon?)

- FChE
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