Catching up
OSCON was amazing but I came back Monday hitting the group running. The first thing I did was finished up something I planned to do before I left. I deployed NFS shared homes and NIS on our testing environment. I know there are those of you reading this wondering why on earth I did not go for LDAP with some Kereberos(sp) thrown in for good measure. To be honest I would have liked to do that but I have worked with NIS before and knew that I could get it all up and running on the network in just a few short days. Setting up NIS was good practice too because we may be looking to deploy it into production soon. LDAP is something I am looking at but I feel LDAP is a 2006 project as my currect plate is pretty darn full.
On a Ubuntu/Kubuntu I am planning to move my laptop up to Breezy today and get some bug reports filled this weekend. I might even move my desktop from Fedora Core 3 to Breezy if things go well on my laptop.
For those Debian people out there that want to play with Slony-I I have a deb you can install now. You can find it on my home page or here.
August 19th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
In your defense - setting up NIS is comparatively easy, and forces you to do the network clean (uid mapping) necessary for doing a sane LDAP/NFS setup anyway.
So I’m happy I only need to change my password in a few places, rather than everywhere at work now!