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Alternatives to NIS?



At my location, we are dealing with a large Unix network composed of
machines from multiple vendors -- Debian, RedHat, Sun, DEC, etc.  We are
moving largely in the direction of Debian and some of the legacy systems
will be dropped within a few years anyway (due to Y2K nonconformity).

We have approximately 2500 users that can pick any of a few dozen machines
to log in to.  Currently, we use NIS to propogate passwd information
(login, password, UID, etc.)  I am aware that NIS is widely considered to
be insecure.  I am wondering what alternatives Debian might support that
would provide a more secure solution than NIS.

Regards,
John Goerzen



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