Directory Services and linux

[Alex Snow]

Yeah I was thinking about looking into ldap...the O'Rielly book I read 
on Nis said that when it became stable ldap would be the best choice 
since Nis was rather insecure and nis+ never really took off.

Thanks for the info, I'll give openldap a try...
On Thu, May 
31, 2007 at 12:44:02PM -0500, Terry Klarich wrote:
> You can use NIS if you want to open up your systems.  Nis has more holes in it than a screen door.  It's actually worse than
> sendmail.
> 
> Use ldap.
> 
> Terry
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:53 -0500you write:
> >NIS is still the standard used in most unix networks, including 
> >Solaris where it was born, actually on the predecessor SunOS.
> >Sun creaited NIS+ as a successor but it never gained ground 
> >over NIS. You can't really go wrong with NIS, it is still the 
> >most widely supported naming service after DNS. 
> >
> >  -- Doug
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