On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Stephen Harris wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> And I'd at *least* go to NIS+. openLDAP is an unbelievable pain, but >> >> Nobody in their right mind uses NIS+. Even Sun have stopped it. >> >> When I did Solaris 2.4 training NIS+ took 2 chapters of the manual. When >> I did Solaris 9 training it took 2 sentences. Yes, NIS+ may be more >> secure than NIS, but it's a FPOS to use properly and not a recommended >> solution. > > *shrug* I've never used it. Trust me, openLDAP is a royal PITA, but with > AD as an alternative.... Both NIS+ and LDAP are a PITA but NIS+ less so, IMHO, probably because I learned it first. Anyway, NIS+ is pretty much history...