3 Sep
2005
3 Sep
'05
1:17 a.m.
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 13:38 -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
Bryan - Sounds like it is time to break out the books....
Nah, not even that: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/NIS-HO...
Again, I suggested NIS because it uses your _existing_ /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, etc... files. You literally just setup the Makefile on what UID/GID to start with, and everything else is turned into NIS maps.
And this sounds like NIS will work in some capacity for backups...right?
NIS can push to a slave server which services in its absence (or even for load considerations), yes.
LDAP is definitely better when you have a large network and aren't interested in just taking existing files.
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