Chris,
Since I am the only one
with root access to any of the machines (everybody else is a student), it
sounds like NIS should be OK. Right?
Also,
before setting up NIS I am trying to move the students' home directories to a
central hard drive located on the server. The drive is set in the server's
/etc/exports as rw for all users via NFS. Other machines see it just fine and
can read from it. However, they won't write to it. When I create a username on
the server and then go to another machine where I created the same username
and password with the NFS directory as its home directory, I keep getting the
message that it is a read-only directory. Do I change something with chmod, or
what?
Thanks,
We're planning on going to NDS most likely.
We're on NIS+ now with NIS backward compatibility
enabled.
MAJOR security hole - anyone with any UNIX machine
that has root access to that machine can become any NIS user without the
need for a password. This is one of the many reasons that I hate
NIS.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Prentice
[mailto:dprentice@uno.edu]
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:28
PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: [seul-edu]
Alternatives to NIS
Anybody,
A while back I seem to
remember someone saying NIS is "evil." Since my classroom network is now
stable enough to begin to expand from the present 7 machines, I want to
centralize access and passwords. What alternatives are there to NIS,
or should I just go with it?
Thanks,