Linux password server?

[Kenneth Burgener]

Stuart Jansen wrote:
> Longer answer: No. Slap anyone that suggests NIS. Pity anyone that
> suggests NIS+.


NIS sent passwords unencrypted.

NIS+ seems to indicate encryption.

"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