On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote: > The only thing I'm trying to accomplish is a system which will allow me to > keep user accounts and passwords in one place, with one place only to > administrate. NIS seems to be able to do that. > > Comments and insights are much appreciated! A related question: is NIS or LDAP (or something else entirely) better if the machines are not uniform in their login configuration? That is, we have an ever-growing list of special cases. UserA can login to servers 1, 2 and 3. UserB can log in to servers 3, 4, and 5. Nobody except UserC can login to server 6. UserD can login to machines 2--6. And so on and so forth. I currently have a custom script with a substantial configuration file for checking that the actual machines are configured as per our intent. It would be nice if there was a single tool where the configuration and management/auditing could be rolled into one. Thanks! Matt