On 2020-04-09 05:14, isdtor wrote:
> Nicolas Kovacs writes:
>> Le 09/04/2020 à 11:05, isdtor a écrit :
>>> NIS works fine on CentOS 8. Certainly the client side. But how it's enabled
>>> is different, check the manual. authconfig is replaced with authselect.
>>
>> NIS "works fine" in the sense that telnet works fine.
>>
>> :o)
>
> It is not our job here to second-guess implementation decisions made by others as only the people concerned are familiar with their environment's restraints and business requirements.
>
Yes, let me validate Mr. Kovacs comment. I am aware of the shortcomings
of NIS in the area of security. Let me provide some information on the
topography of my network and my reasoning for choosing NIS/NFS. Perhaps
an alternative may be suggested to meet my needs without totally
confounding me when it comes to configuration. I tried another solution
some time ago but failed miserably. Search for "nobody:nobody" in my
transactions on this mail list from 2019/04/02.
I have a small home network, four CentOS boxes, three running CentOS 6
at the moment. This network is behind an ONT and an Edgerouter.
Machine #4 is a newly constructed AMD 16 core with a set of four 2TB HDs
that will be configured as a RAID array. I plan to host the home
directories of all the users on my network on the array and share them
out to the other three machines to be auto-mounted when the user logs
in. I did this successfully using NIS/NFS about 20 years ago in a small
private grade school network that I built from the scrap heap of old and
abandoned machines, and no money, that they had on hand.
All the machines on my home network will eventually be running CentOS 8
seeing that CentOS 6 is very near EOL. Being that they will all be
running the same flavor of CentOS should make configuration a bit easier.
I need a set of tools that is fairly simple to configure, by which I
mean has complete and accurate documentation which I can find, and does
not present impediments to future system configuration. My hope is to
do all the user management on the 16 core that will be hosting the raid.
I don't want to have to log onto all the other machines to twiddle
bits each time I want to add a new user account.
I designed the 16 core with the intent of putting it's
non-entertainment/educational clock cycles to work as a Monero miner. I
chose Monero because it is specifically resistant to ASIC implementation
demanding excellent system CPU and GPU performance and plenty of RAM, 64
Gb in this case. There's no point in trying to mine Bit Coin et al.
unless you plan to live for the 1000 years it will take to earn just one.
Now that I've bored you to tears, are there any suggestions as to what I
should use as a replacement for NIS/NFS for sharing and mounting of
/home directories on the other three machines on my network? Consider
that you are probably going to end up holding my hand in this endeavor
so choose something that you would want to configure and use.
Choose wisely Grasshopper.
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