[CentOS] NIS or not?

On 1/28/2014 4:45 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> Use IPA. It combines LDAP with Kerberos, a server-client environment is
>> >easily setup and the documentation (RHEL deployment) is very helpful.
> Thank you. I'll look it up.
>
> LDAP and Kerberos though. That does sound a lot like Microsoft Active
> Directory.8-)
>
> --

FreeIPA provides an open source Active Directory equivalent.   its 
pretty easy to setup a simple directory server, and it can expand to be 
an enterprise-wide directory.   it allows both linux and windows 
computers to participate in the authentication domain.

yes, its basically LDAP and Kerberos, with a management suite.

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