How To Configure User Accounts Without NIS
The company where I work is mostly a Windows shop, but I run a few CentOS
servers and desktops. I have configured my systems as follows with Kickstart:
authconfig –enablemd5 –passalgo=sha512 –enablenis –nisdomain=XXX \
–nisserver=nis1.XXX.com,nis2.XXX.com –useshadow –enablekrb5 \
–krb5realm=XXX.COM –krb5kdc=ldap.XXX.com –krb5adminserver=ldap.XXX.com
The /etc/nsswitch.conf file looks like this:
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
The NIS services are provided by the Windows Domain controllers using Windows Unix Services (or something similarly named). This allows anyone that
4 thoughts on - How To Configure User Accounts Without NIS
Integrated linux domain controller -> http://www.freeipa.org/
Its brilliant!
ta,
Andrew
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2014-06-11 1:28 GMT+03:00 Alfred von Campe:
Well, you can just authenticate against AD, it works fine on RHEL 5/6 ..
See your private mail for instructions.
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Eero
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2014-06-11 4:01 GMT+03:00 Alfred von Campe:
ipa-client and server is part of RHEL same way as NIS or Winbind.
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Eero