LDAP vs. NIS+

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:55 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>     Once again I turn to the smart folks on this list.  I'm looking for 
> a way to centralize our user management.  At the moment I have user 
> logins that are scattered across several machines.  Ideally I want to 
> have one central "accounts" machine, where all the user LOGIN data is 
> kept and maintained.  Then I would have a shell server, where their 
> actual files are kept.  Users then connect to this shell server only 
> (which then authenticates the user against the "accounts" machine before 
> letting them on.)  I will also have a web server and mail spool server 
> which will have NFS shares, and all of these will have to have some 
> record of the user information (UID/GID at the very least) for things to 
> work properly.  That data should be coming from the central "accounts" 
> machine I would think.
> 
>     I heard that NIS+ can do what I want to do.  At the same time, I 
> also heard LDAP may be what I want.  So which is which?  What should I 
> consider using?  Considering that neither is something I've played with 
> extensively (I've done some NIS+ stuff eons ago, but never LDAP) this 
> would be a first for me and having to figure things out from the ground up.
> 
>     What does the general public recommend?  And any 
> pointers/suggestions you might have are also welcome.
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LDAP is future, NIS is past

Craig


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