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#7 Re: Question: Migrating existing users from one host to another? Posted by Anonymous (212.254.xx.xx) on Thu 13 Oct 2005 at 08:52 I agree. NIS is *really* easy to setup. But LDAP is a little bit more complicated. But that's also more secure... If you are newbie, just wanting to have same users on 2-3 servers, use NIS. Else, if you have more afdvanced needs, use LDAP. Another thing: you say you use these users for squid, not for user auth via SSH. I don't know Squid well, but I think you can use PAM to auth users in Squid, so it will be possible to use LDAP directly with Squid. You don't need to have users defined at system level (/etc/passwd).

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