From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 18:37:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360E516A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:37:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E4743D1F for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:37:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33917BA88 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:37:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06084-08 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:37:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from janus.daycos.com (outbound.daycos.com [204.26.70.70]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CCFBA87 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:37:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Kirk Strauser To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:37:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1090519611.584.1.camel@mgl.magellanhealth.com> <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040722142336.70c55f16.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_nlAABB8tu0DNpjl"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407221337.27867.kirk@strauser.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at honeypot.net Subject: Re: User Accounts across multiple machines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:37:34 -0000 --Boundary-02=_nlAABB8tu0DNpjl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 22 July 2004 13:23, Bill Moran wrote: > Ray Seals wrote: > > I have 15 FreeBSD machines on my network (soon to be around 30) and > > want to synch all the machines userid and passwords. Is NIS still the > > primary way to do this or is there a better solution? > As far as I understand it, yes. Although Kerberos seems to be a > practical alternative. With 5.x, there is more support for pam, thus > opening up your choices to things like LDAP. Note that Kerberos only provides AAA and not directory services. I recently (within the last 6 months) replaced my old NIS setup with one=20 based on OpenLDAP. It works perfectly across my FreeBSD, Linux, and Mac OS= =20 X machines. NIS did the job, but I won't be rolling it out on new systems= =20 ever again. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser --Boundary-02=_nlAABB8tu0DNpjl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQBBAAln5sRg+Y0CpvERApyMAJ96EU2G+W4GQRZDAxrfG3mkTHSstACfVYZZ j2zkFY7qN+uMzLEF6BlESc0= =uj2C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_nlAABB8tu0DNpjl--