-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Pete Geenhuizen Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:12 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not?
I used NIS for many years while working on Sun Solaris and it worked extremely well, although when it breaks it can be a real challenge to figure out the problems. I don't know how well it's implemented in Linux, bound to be a bit different than Solaris. In either case if it's important be aware of the potential security issues related to NIS, mainly the clear text passing of the password which is what pretty much doomed it.
Yeah, that last bit made me squirm over here. I don't feel good about that, even though the linux machines are all pretty much localized to one spot, so that hardly any traffic goes out of the department.
With all of that said I do think though that LDAP would be a better solution although I've not used LDAP.
Good luck with it either way.
Thanks. I'll look into LDAP some more.
//Sorin