[Labs-l] RFC: Webtools setup

[Ryan Lane]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> I thought about setting up nis for that, but it would be better if those
> >> uids were also handled by ldap.
> >
> > What's the advantage of NIS?
>
> It provides a “shared passwd”. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service
> There's not a special advantage of using it instead of LDAP other than
> "it manages global accounts" and "It's not LDAP", you already have
> libraries for that and it'd be trivial to chain ldap and nis.
>
>
NIS is just insecure LDAP. It's been deprecated for ages and shouldn't be
used. Let's not introduce another auth service. We can either use ldap for
this, or we can use puppet.

- Ryan
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