No one seems to like AD. I actually find it to be fairly manageable compared to stock LDAP/Kerberos. The management tools blow OpenLDAP out of the water. I laugh at myself saying it, but if you want simple management of a big installation, AD is pretty dang tested these days and it's not hard to integrate other systems in that environment if you have admin control of the schema. -Iain On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote: > 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... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -- - Iain Morris iain.t.morris at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101002/342f9753/attachment-0005.html>