My dad turns 49 (wow, he was around when the dinosaurs roamed the earth) this Sept 15th. Or my math's off. One of the two.
Linux needs a better way to do authentication than NSS and PAM. Actually, I *like* NSS. I don't like PAM. It has to be re-configured for every bloody service, and it's easy to foobar your setup. I just want to authenticate against a server. It can do Kerberos (I won't do that to myself), LDAP (difficult, but possible), WinBind (my boss has found out that this is no substitute for a Real Setup), or even NIS (via Services For Unix). Sadly, it just doesn't work, and there is almost NO real debugging info. Hopefully Novell or IBM jump in, figure it out, and make a cheap (yeah, we'd pay a little (a little!!) for it) program/script/plugin/system to authenticate against a real directory, like LDAP. But it's not fun.
And SFU's NFS server doesn't seem to like doing any useful logging, like why my attempt to write a file fails, even though I've got the permissions set (on both sides it appears correctly) and the share is RW but it doesn't work. Spent half an hour on that one, and decided to give up, I'll just mount my /home/
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