On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:13 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > 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. You might get involved and help write such tools. That would replace embarrassment with pride. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
