Re: [MLUG] LDAP v. NIS v. whatever (for distributed authentication)

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I think NIS is easier if you plan on a handful of machines. LDAP would 
probably be easier if you expect more or are in a more dynamic enviroment.


> We have a new Red Hat server, an old VMS server or two, a Windows server
> or two and a few hundred Windows machines and Macs.  We want users to be
> able to log into the servers using a single username/password.  Our main
> IT guy wrote the two paragraphs below.  Any opinions?  Is this a secure
> approach?  I don't understand it fully, but I don't find it appealing that
> we have to depend on a Windows server to log into our Linux server (which
> is what I *think* he's proposing).  --Mike
> 
> 
> "I have done a little looking into NIS as well as some other distributed
> authentication systems.  I get the impression from a variety of sources
> that LDAP may be the long-term way to go.  It appears that many OS's are
> adopting LDAP as one possible authentication source, plus LDAP is fairly
> general-purpose and can serve other needs as well.  In addition to
> integrating this with VMS we also need to consider all the Windows and Mac
> OS X clients.
> 
> "At the moment we are using a Windows domain controller as a central
> authentication server to serve the Windows and VMS folks.  That should
> also be usable by the Linux box, since authentication via the Windows SMB
> protocol is one of the options that Linux supports.  That is probably the
> best thing to get going right off the bat, since that would enable
> everyone who currently has an Epi user account to log onto the Linux box
> as well."


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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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