[CentOS] How insecure is NIS ? Possible alternatives ?

On 26/03/2018 15:14, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> FreeIPA takes all of one command to install, and one to set up. It
> provides a web UI for both administrative and end-user management of
> users, passwords, login and sudo policy, etc. Anything you find overly
> complex can simply be unused.

FreeIPA is easy to set up, but it is quite a complex beast under the
hood. I've had some nasty debugging sessions with it before when things
like Kerberos trust relationships failed.