Topic: NIS auth

[Stefano]

hi all..

I found this (old) howto:

http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_31.htm

I'm not a guru, but it seems interesting..

even if old, I see that NIS can be installed and configured easily on centos6 (see http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_6&p=nis for example), and so, my question is: would it be usable to share SME's accounts (users/groups) among 2 or more SME servers?


I know that there are other ways to go, but...

[CharlieBrady]

even if old, I see that NIS can be installed and configured easily on centos6 (see http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_6&p=nis for example), and so, my question is: would it be usable to share SME's accounts (users/groups) among 2 or more SME servers?

It's definitely possible to share SME's accounts among multiple linux systems using NIS. But multiple SME servers is a different issue - SME server's server-manager doesn't  know anything about a subservient role. Each system will consider its own accounts database to be definitive. Lots of things would no doubt start to go wrong if you tried to set this up.