[4388] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (babydr)
Sat Sep 14 23:31:14 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 19:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: babydr <babydr@nwrain.net>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@miriam.fuller.edu>
Cc: "Linux Network Info. List" <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <51fefh$bhk@miriam.fuller.edu>
> The easy way is to use NIS because most if not all Unixes support it. Anything
^^^^ uh-huh but NOT all.
> else will cause a lot of trouble with some system or another.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ditto.
>
> NIS is simple and universal.
>
no simpler than any other either.
No one system is easy & very configurable at the same time.
JimL
