Linux password server?

[Stuart Jansen]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:13 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> "NIS+ additionally supports secure and encrypted RPC, which helps
> greatly to solve the security problems of NIS."[1]
> 
> Curious, why is NIS+ a poor choice?
>
> [1]http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-nis.nisplus.html

You didn't read far enough.

"At the time we're writing, there isn't yet a good working
implementation of NIS+ for Linux, so it isn't covered here."[1]

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