[CentOS] NIS or not?

Tue Jan 28 16:08:33 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares
>>
>> > 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
>> >
>>       Then stop playing with yourself already! ;)
>>
>>       Kerberos on linux works quite well; keep everyone's clock within
>> 5min of the auth server and you will be ok. I have not done sssd yet
>> though. I did have timeout with nfs automount issues due to expired
>> tickets, but that setup is old.
>
> LOL!
>
> Hmm, yes. It would seem most everybody recomends Kerberos. Will have to
> look into it then.
>
Remember, kerboros came from the Unix world, so you'd expect it to work
well in Linux. M$ added it in much later....

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