Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 16, 2006 06:21 AM
Most LDAP installations are equally as insecure. And I can guarantee you that up to about 2,000 users or so, the LDAP based systems will be much, much slower. The care and feeding of LDAP is more complex. There is still quite a lot of room for NIS. Besides, with PAM you can secure your authentication via some other source with regards to password data and simply nuke/ignore the password data inside of NIS.
NIS is also still the only good universal account distribution mechanism for *ix. LDAP support is spotty at best (variations of schemas, etc).
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Re:And the comments are pouring in
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 16, 2006 06:21 AMNIS is also still the only good universal account distribution mechanism for *ix. LDAP support is spotty at best (variations of schemas, etc).
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