> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Logan McNaughton > Sent: den 28 januari 2014 14:33 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] NIS or not? > > Where I work we use NIS + Kerberos (Active Directory). We have about 150 > machines at our site. It works quite well, as someone said, the big draw > back to NIS is that it sends passwords insecurely, but if you use Kerberos > for authentication it's really quite easy to manage. We do have Active Directory as well, but only for the Windows clients. But I'd rather keep them separated. Kerberos on linux. Is that a pain or a bigger pain? Whenever I've worked with Kerberos on Windows I've come out all sweaty afterwards... 8-S -- //Sorin