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IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. =) |
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It does simplify a number of things, and I honestly have never actually |
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tried to make the LDAP integration work on BSD. |
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Kerberos is not an account management tool - it is authentication |
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management, I use it all the time, and even in small networks I prefer it |
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to the 'straight' alternatives. OpenLDAP + Kerberos is pretty hot. I use |
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this for my work network especially, and on my home network I use local |
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accounts + kerberos. |
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Gentoo has an LDAP howto here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ldap-howto.xml |
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I have a really horrible kerberos howto, but it may become less horrible in |
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time: http://lateralis.imr-net.com/wiki/jms/Kerberos |
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Finally, most of where I started with all of this is here: |
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http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/krbldap/ |
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