On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello listmates, > > I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to > anything but NIS thus far. See here: > > > <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ > > <http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html> > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for > authentication? > > > Even without AD one could setup a Kerberos server and NIS database a lot > easier then LDAP. > > -Ross > Really!? I dunno, what you just described sounds a lot more complex then setting up an OpenLDAP server, even with replication. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101002/eb4bbd99/attachment-0005.html>