[CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated Authentication [Apache]

Wed Feb 18 00:50:27 UTC 2009
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

> If you have a lot of hosts that need access to winbind mapped
> UIDs/GIDs instead of setting up winbind everywhere and having a
> administrative headache if the RID mapping gets messed up on one host,
> setup a winbind to NIS server that puts the mappings into NIS maps and
> propagate the information that way. Only real difference on the other
> hosts is to switch 'winbind' to 'nis' in nsswitch.conf.
>   
What's wrong with winbind on a ldap backend? I have winbind installed 
everywhere...all pointing to a single ldap instance.