Re: Promoting LDAP vs NIS on RHL

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

We are using Kerberos/GSSAPI whenever possible. The places we are not..
we run into the over-caching of passwords.

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 17:23, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:15, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> > We found that turning on nscd with openldap w/db4 had the speeds
> > equivalent to NIS. However our ldap tables may just be lucky enough to
> > be fast.
> 
> And to be fair - I found that it helps ldap too. but then you suffer
> nscd's problems of over-caching passwords with other uid information.
> 
> unless you're using kerberos - and then if you are I'm not sure how much
> ldap saves you over nis.
> 
> -sv
> 
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