Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 08:03 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:

Jobst Schmalenbach a écrit :

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service

it used to be called "yp" or "yellow pages". it works with samba too.

I'm new to centralized user authentication, and I want to learn how to do it. I've heard that NIS is a deprecated technology, and that one should favour LDAP over it. I'd be curious if someone could explain the facts behind this (or even if it's true or not).

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LDAP is also much more robust and versatile. You can keep extending it for many things like mail routing/delivery/aliases, integration with Samba/Netatalk/ for Windows/Macintosh users, automounts, shared address books and more than just authentication.

Craig