Re: UNIX Authentication

From: Thomas Lindsay (lindsayt_at_socsci.umn.edu)
Date: 12/19/03

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    Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:52:54 -0600 (CST)
To: Andreas Schubert <andreas.schubert@mathema.de>

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Andreas Schubert wrote:
    > Have you considered using nis+?

    nis+ has been discontinued by Sun Microsystems, effective some time this
    winter, I believe. Even Sun recommends against its use now. It's
    probably best to use some sort of LDAP solution (openldap, iplanet, etc.).

    There are even ldap-nis gateways available to support the few old
    (hopefully firewalled) machines you may have that can't support it. 

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Thomas A Lindsay -- lindsayt@hist.umn.edu
System Administrator, Social Science Research Facility
PhD student, Department of History
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, West Bank
---
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
                    --W.B.Yeats, "The Second Coming" 1919
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