[CentOS] NIS or not?

[anax]

Hi Sorin
of course: you may omit the mail cocacho and realize only the 
authentication cocacho in LDAP. For us, however, it has proven to be 
most advantageous to have both on LDAP.
You may also select to do first the authentication in LDAP and later on, 
if you are familiar with LDAP, realize the mail.

suomi

On 2014-01-28 13:32, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of anax
>> Sent: den 28 januari 2014 12:24
>> To: centos at centos.org
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?
>>
>> Hi Sorin
>> we use here LDAP  authentication and mail-control since more than 10 years.
>> At that time, we did the conversion from passwd/shadow to LDAP using the
>> tools on
>> http://www.padl.com/download/
>> which are still available, probably in a newer version...
>>
>> To represent a person or a service in LDAP we use the objectclasses:
>>    objectClass: account
>>    objectClass: posixAccount
>>    objectClass: top
>>    objectClass: shadowAccount
>>    objectClass: mailRecipient
>>
>> To represent a mail user for postfix we use the objectlcasses:
>>
>>    objectClass: top
>>    objectClass: person
>>    objectClass: organizationalPerson
>>    objectClass: inetOrgPerson
>>    objectClass: qmailUser
>>
>> To represent a Domain which we serve mail-wise we use the objectclasses:
>> objectClass: qmailControl
>> objectClass: top
>>
>>
>> We also have developed an LDAP via Web Interface, which we use
>> exclusively for LDAP administration.
>>
>> We have two LDAP servers, syncronized via syncrepl.
>>
>> suomi
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2014-01-28 10:02, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>>
>>> The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me to
>>> keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to
>>> administrate. NIS seems to be able to do that.
>
> Thank you.
> Can I use just the user authentication (uid/pwd) part and skip the whole
> mail-cocacho, or do these two go hand in hand when using LDAP?
>
> --
> //Sorin
>
>
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