Re: [seul-edu] single login across multiple servers

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

NIS is quite straightforward and easy to engineer. All distros should have
support for this built in, etc. The simplest approach to get the job done.

LDAP is definitely sexier but its going to take more effort to implement.
LDAP can be used across multiple servers (ie. slaves) to implement an
entire org tree, but normally one just has a single NIS server (which is
what you want) and then another for failover.

I like NIS. Simple. Bulletproof.

I also like LDAP. Sexy and you can do more things with it. 

Les Richardson 


At 11:41 AM 5/8/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I am looking for options and/or pointers on setting up multiple linux 
>servers and having them authenticate from the same user base.  Is NIS 
>better or easier than LDAP?  Are there any other options better?  We 
>hope to authenticate Windows and Macintosh computers to these servers.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-- 
>Dan Yonker
>Systems Administrator
>Zeeland Public Schools - http://www.zeeland.k12.mi.us/zps
>Zeeland, Michigan
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