[Gllug] Help Needed for windows to linux migration

[Tethys]

Richard Jones writes:

>You might also consider centralising authentication. There are two
>approaches to this which I've used: using "NIS" (bitch to configure,
>very unreliable), or use LDAP and configure each client with the pam
>and NSS ldap clients. Last time I looked LDAP was the better of the
>two, but both are/used to be very hard to configure.

Cough! NIS is trivial to configure, and it's even reliable, but it's
not tolerant of failures. LDAP on the other hand really *is* a bitch
to configure, but will probably work better in the long run. For NIS,
you just "cd /var/yp && make"

Tet

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