Maybe I'm off topic. WHere do you keep your user accounts at the moment?
are they all local users?
Most exploits and vulnerabilities are local -- they only apply to your
machine if you have (other) local users. So it's more secure to have
"virtual" users via nsswitch / pam /etc and some db (ldap, mysql
preferably).
There are more reasons - but this is the most compelling one I think.
Michael Moritz
Rod Rodolico wrote:
ok, this is a basic question. I am a small IPP (60 domains, 200 users)
and I see a lot of stuff about ldap. I searched the web and got some
basic info on what it does, but the big question is, how would it be
helpful to me? I also run MySQL services, but mainly the server does
smtp, imap, pop, http and dns (exim, courier, apache and bind). One box,
200 users, is there any reason I should consider dns?
BTW, I also maintain three other web servers for people and use them all
as backup servers (using rsync) for each other, but I guess that is not
part of the issue here.
Thanks,
Rod
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