Re: central sign-on for Red Hat?

[GaryCarr <gcarr lanl gov>]

NIS+ is a Sun product, that Sun does not recommend any more. I've used 
it for a number of years on Solaris. It was a very secure system which 
scaled up to very large distributed networks well. NIS+ on Linux only 
supports the client side, and I don't think anyone actively supports the 
code any more. The web page is http://www.linux-nis.org/nisplus/.

I would say use NIS for a relatively small network behind a good 
firewall. For anything else go with LDAP.

Angie Moore wrote:
> I'm assuming that NIS or NIS+ is the easiest to install and use? Which is
> best between the two? 
>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:41 AM
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> Subject: Re: central sign-on for Red Hat?
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> > From: "Angie Moore" <diabeticithink yahoo com>
> > Date: 2007/08/16 Thu AM 11:13:52 EDT
> > To: <redhat-list redhat com>
> > Subject: central sign-on for Red Hat?
> >
> > Hi All
> >  
> > Is there a way to have all of my users (25 red hat boxes on RHES 4.0), 
> > to have their logon accounts and permission managed and configured 
> > from one server (like Active Directory does)? Would OpenLDAP do the 
> > trick? Or is there another way?
> >  
> > As always, thank you for your help!
> >  
> > Anne
> >     
>
> There is the RedHat Directory Server if you need the support or you could
> use the Fedora Directory Server if you can manage it on your own or with
> community support from the mailing lists.
>
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> Bob
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