Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:32:39 +0100 From: Christian Schmidt <Christian.Schmidt@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centralized user/group/whatever management Message-ID: <9545bd42-2946-0f82-619f-d7cad6d17e5d@chemie.uni-hamburg.de> In-Reply-To: <20200313091923.GA98495@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200313091923.GA98495@admin.sibptus.ru>
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Hi Victor, Victor Sudakov, 13.03.20: > Do you think there exists a modern solution for centralized user/group/... > management compatible with FreeBSD and Linux? > > I have experience using NIS on FreeBSD for many years, but NIS is really very > dated, not very secure, depends on the NIS servers being reachable all the > time, depends on Sun RPC (portmapper, dynamic ports) and has other > drawbacks. I know this from experience. > > Are there any modern solutions for FreeBSD hosts to have at least a common > user/userid/group/groupid database, or maybe even more centralized goodies? (Open)LDAP is quite commonly used for this. Kind Regards Christian Schmidt -- No signature available.
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