OT: Directory Services and linux

[Terry Klarich]

You want to look at openldap.  I am running it here on my personal network.  Id's are shared among all my machines, samba accounts
and html accounts.  Works well.

Terry
On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:59 -0400you write:
>Hi,
>
>Have a few  linux machines running here that I'd like to have running a 
>directory service to synchronise login information and the like.  I was 
>just wondering, what's the best directory service to run these days? I 
>had to take an intro to Unix class for school, and that mentioned NIS, 
>which I had looked into in the past...though I just read the ORielly 
>book on that and it seemed to say that NIS should only be used until 
>newer alternatives became stable, and the book was about 5 years old.  
>Being able to interoperate with windows hosts would be nice also, though 
>I'm not holding my breath...
>Any help would be apreciated.
>
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