Hello !
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 04:06, Beast wrote:
> Currently what im thinking was nis, samba and ldap (using openldap)
> nis = seem mature, is it worth in today environment?
NIS/NIS+ is a dying model, soon you will see Sun even doing LDAP
instead of NIS/NIS+ that is the way to go today. You can integrate a
whole bunch of applications into LDAP like mail, web, imap, pop, ftp to
name a few for instance.
> samba = if we will move all client to linux, is it usefull to use auth
> model which was not linux 'native' auth.
Well when I suggested pGINA I know that the systems that would be
affect would be the Win2000/XP Pro really nothing to do with the LDAP
side of things per se. You can use these quite effectively with SAMBA to
do a wide variety of things. pGINA uses a Unix "PAM" equivalent in
Microsoft from MS, this would be a better way to go right, all you need
is an LDAP server setup to the authentication and reduces the need for a
PDC and BDC, and you can use SAMBA to do some more interesting things
for your organization.
> ldap = is it proven techology for this purpose?
>
LDAP is a general purpose thing now, you can really put anything in
LDAP. LDAP from companies such as Sun (Sun ONE Directory Server) have
extra plugins and if you don't mind using one of those the licensing is
ultra cheap I think it was $1 for upto 100,000 licenses. It has some
"plugins" to do some things like NT passwd syncs etc etc. It works with
RH 7.2/7.3 I haven't tried it on 8.0 though.
So LDAP is quite a proven technology, by extension its the software
that plugs in which you should question, SAMBA is quite reliable for
this and with LDAP its quite portable. You will have to compile the
SAMBA software for use as the RH one is not LDAP-aware or not compiled
with LDAP switches.
> I just wondering what are the auth model/directory service used by large
> company with *nix environment.
Well I know that many people prior to using LDAP/NIS/NIS+ and may still
use the /etc/passwd system as well as the smbpasswd systems to deal with
such things. Sun has a product that they give out for free like SAMBA I
have no clue if it runs on Linux or is a purely Solaris things but I
guess that people (I for one) have started to use and give LDAP serious
thought as its back to centralized services, LDAP replicates well so you
are in good shape.
Large companies with a large user base would find such technologies
useful, I know HP/Compaq use LDAP for instance to do alot of things in
their backend. Useful !
Cheers,
Aly.
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