Directory Services and linux

[Terry Klarich]

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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