[CentOS] NIS or not?

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Logan McNaughton
>> Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:33
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?
>>
>> Where I work we use NIS + Kerberos (Active Directory). We have about 150
>> machines at our site. It works quite well, as someone said, the big draw
>> back to NIS is that it sends passwords insecurely, but if you use Kerberos
>> for authentication it's really quite easy to manage.
>
> We do have Active Directory as well, but only for the Windows clients.
>
> But I'd rather keep them separated.
>
> Kerberos on linux. Is that a pain or a bigger pain?
> Whenever I've worked with Kerberos on Windows I've come out all sweaty
> afterwards... 8-S
>
      Then stop playing with yourself already! ;)

      Kerberos on linux works quite well; keep everyone's clock within
5min of the auth server and you will be ok. I have not done sssd yet
though. I did have timeout with nfs automount issues due to expired
tickets, but that setup is old.

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> //Sorin
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