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Re: Equivalencing usernames/ids across computers



On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:17:14PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Thanks, Cameleón, I might take a look at LDA and/or NIS, although I
> have no experience with them. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to just
> change around the UIDs on some of the systems, which may well be the
> path of least resistance.

For your needs NIS/YP will be sufficient enough and it's easy to set up.
However it's not secure by design and it doesn't scale well so if you're
planning on growing I'd recommend going straight to LDAP.

Regards,
-- 
Raf


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