Fwd: What can I do with six new publicly available computers? now nis vs. rsync
'anybody can log in from anywhere' with nis/ldap is just plain FUD.
NIS and LDAP are designed to do this, they do it (reasonably) well.
scping over password and shadow is an ugly hack and will bite you
if you create users on a regular basis. Maintenance is a pain.
You also have a single 'master copy' which is a Bad Thing if
you want any sort of resilience.
On 20/09/05, Patrick Rittich <prittich@dowco.com> wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > anybody can login from anywhere after you set up nis or ldap
> > ( both are bad idea )
> > or rsync /etc/passwd /etc/shadow to each machine ( my preference )
> >
>
> I like this idea of using rsync to copy over /etc/passwd, but I have to
> ask, what problems does nis have (since that's what we have set up on
> our network)?
>
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> Patrick Rittich
> prittich@dowco.com
> Dowco Computer Systems Ltd.
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