Using NIS to manage logins across my servers?

Swakoo · 01-22-2008, 10:14 PM

I am thinking of using a NIS server to manage the login credentials of my web/database/file servers in the infrastructure (datacenter).

But is it a wise thing to do?
I'll have only one server to do that, and if that one server goes down.. i suppose no one can login?

My only intention is to better manage login accounts thats all.. is it worth the lot?

Micro420 · 01-22-2008, 11:30 PM

You can set up NIS master and slave servers. If security is an issue, I would reconsider using NIS

Swakoo · 01-22-2008, 11:40 PM

master and slave so as to achieve redundancy right?
hmm but i only can spare one box to do this... and i am already using virtualization to do it.

security is always a concern in any network.. but for this case.. yeah.. nothing exceptional...

so what you guys think? or i am better off creating the accounts manually?