seth vidal wrote:
For simple multi-machine nss nis is still, by far, the simplest to setup and maintain.
LDAP sure isn't an easy beast to configure and run, expecially if you need TLS and replication. But this is largely a distribution issue: the default configuration in Fedora does not come close to what would be needed to setup an LDAP authentication server. And there are no system-config-* tools for newbies to use. I've had similar experience with other Linux distributions. Linux is now the only OS that doesn't provide out of the box authentication and directory services for corporate environments. Windows got there six years ago with ActiveDirectory and MacOSX does it beautifully with NetInfo and its nice OpenLDAP integration. As an administrator, I'm particularly embarassed to show my customers the tools I use to run their UNIX accounts and Samba domain controller. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
