Yeah I was thinking about looking into ldap...the O'Rielly book I read on Nis said that when it became stable ldap would be the best choice since Nis was rather insecure and nis+ never really took off. Thanks for the info, I'll give openldap a try... On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:44:02PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote: > You can use NIS if you want to open up your systems. Nis has more holes in it than a screen door. It's actually worse than > sendmail. > > Use ldap. > > Terry > On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:53 -0500you write: > >NIS is still the standard used in most unix networks, including > >Solaris where it was born, actually on the predecessor SunOS. > >Sun creaited NIS+ as a successor but it never gained ground > >over NIS. You can't really go wrong with NIS, it is still the > >most widely supported naming service after DNS. > > > > -- Doug > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- lp1 on fire -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages
