Is there a more modern/mainstream/lite YP/NIS for ubuntu?

[Alex Katebi]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:45:43AM -0500, Alex Katebi wrote:
> >    On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Chris G <[1]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> >      I'd like to make my life even easier by having some sort of
> >      simple/lite version of YP/NIS+ on my home system.  I now have three
> >      xubuntu boxes and would like to be able to set up user logins in one
> >      place for all three systems.
> >
> >      Is there some moderately easy way of doing this?
> >
> >
> >    I played with YP/NIS and LDAP a while back and NIS was the easiest.
> But
> >    not easy enough.
> >    I would say for three PCs it is not worth it. Install VNC server on
> all
> >    and access them remotely for admin.
> >
> Yes, that's what I felt looking at YP/NIS, much too much like hard
> work for a small network like mine.  I'll do it all manually (in my
> case using ssh and command line).
>

I think to me the NIS itself was not too bad but you have to use DNS etc.
Maybe if I had used static IP addressing it would have been OK. Again I
think you are right the overhead is still too hight for a small network.


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