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Re: "kickstart" for debian needed



DI Peter Burgstaller wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> > > Most (of our) engineers are not linux-compliant.
> > > Need centralized login, (can't use NIS+, we've already got a NIS+ system
> > > for Solaris... don't wanna confuse the issue,)
> >
> > You might like to look into using LDAP for this.  Another alternitive is
> > using an SQL database.  This issue is pretty flexiable considering there
> > are many PAM modules and quite a few Name Service (libnss) modules.
>
> I fail to see why you can't use NIS!? You can bind to different domains so
> just run your 30 debians under their own NIS domain and you can cross exist
> no problem. If you even maybe host the NIS Servers on the same machine I could
> think of some very nice perl scripts to cross import data between them if you
> need same userids but different services for ex. We had a similar setting
> at the university of salzburg which worked very well.
>

Specifically because as a NOC, if NIS+ goes down, we may be unable to access our
tools to troubleshoot the issue.

~duane

>
> - Just my 0.02, Peter
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