Re: NIS+? Alternatives?
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:11:11AM -0500, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) generated a stream of 1s and 0s:
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> Some of you probably have seem me asking about this in #debian:
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> I'm trying to setup NIS+ on Debian.. I have a number of machines which
> I would like to use NIS+ for authentication and also for autofs
> mapping.. Has anyone actually succeeded in using NIS+ with Debian?
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> I've currently taken nis-utils.tar.gz from ftp.kernel.org and hacked
> into it a bit. It's half-working.. it asks for the password twice on
> login, and autofs doesn't see the auto_master table on NIS+..
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> Also, if NIS+ is just plainly out of the question, are there any good
> alternatives to NIS+? Keep in mind that it should provide security
> like NIS+ (column & row permissions), and work with sun and linux
> clients..
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> Michael Janssen - Jamuraa
> janssen@cns.uni.edu - jamuraa@equitar.cx
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NSSwitch and LDAP are much better than NIS. Don't use NIS unless you
have to. Check out www.rage.net.
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