Linux password server?

[Kenneth Burgener]

Nicholas Leippe wrote:
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> NIS ?


Thanks for the suggestion.

This looked like a good option, but...

"The disadvantages are that NIS doesn't encrypt the username and
password information sent to the clients with each login and that all
users have access to the encrypted passwords stored on the NIS server."[1]

Has this been improved since?

[1]
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch30_:_Configuring_NIS