[CentOS] NIS or not?

[Matt Garman]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> 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.
>
> Comments and insights are much appreciated!

A related question: is NIS or LDAP (or something else entirely) better
if the machines are not uniform in their login configuration?

That is, we have an ever-growing list of special cases.  UserA can
login to servers 1, 2 and 3.  UserB can log in to servers 3, 4, and 5.
 Nobody except UserC can login to server 6.  UserD can login to
machines 2--6.  And so on and so forth.

I currently have a custom script with a substantial configuration file
for checking that the actual machines are configured as per our
intent.  It would be nice if there was a single tool where the
configuration and management/auditing could be rolled into one.

Thanks!
Matt