Original computing articles by a systems administrator

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Authenticating with Active Directory using Likewise Open and Migrating from NIS

The current infrastructure at my office uses network information services (NIS) to authenticate users on Linux machines against the office’s Window’s domain. I found this to be unreliable. It depends upon Microsoft Identity Management for Unix, version 5.2, which is flaky in my experience. My goal was to be able to transition from NIS to… Continue Reading