Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?

Sorin Srbu wrote:

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Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares

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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.

LOL!

Hmm, yes. It would seem most everybody recomends Kerberos. Will have to look into it then.

Remember, kerboros came from the Unix world, so you'd expect it to work well in Linux. M$ added it in much later....

mark