[mythtv-users] [SLIGHTLY-OT] LDAP vs NIS vs NFS

[John Drescher]

> So, you can confirm that using LDAP I don't have to worry about
> UID/GIDs across boxes?
Users have the same UID/GID on each machine.

> It would seem so since everything is housed on
> LDAP server(s). Do you have more than one server?
At work I have a few ldap servers (only one at home). You need to
setup synchrepl to synchronize between servers. Its pretty easy after
you get the first server up.
> I'm sorta thinking
> that if one goes down, I'd need another server. What if all LDAP
> servers go down? Can you still log on to clients?
>
Not unless the passwords are in /etc/passwd and this will also cause
delay problems.

John