[Sunhelp] New Master NIS server

[Simpson Clyde Contr AFIT/SCBS]

Thanks!!!  I've got a isolated lan I'm bringing up to experiment with ...
I'll
inform you of my progress.

-----Original Message-----
From: ward at zilla.nu [mailto:ward at zilla.nu]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:51 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] New Master NIS server


There also exists a nice NIS/LDAP gateway for solaris.  Commercial product,
but
GREAT if you need it.  Lets you use LDAP as the backend for NIS, letting you
migrate to LDAP slowly.

Reagen

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:03:19PM -0500, George J. Thiruvathukal wrote:
> on 5/25/2000 1:41 PM, ward at zilla.nu at ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:07:35PM -0400, Simpson Clyde Contr AFIT/SCBS
wrote:
> >> how bout migration from NIS to NIS+????
> > 
> > A frightening prospect.  NIS+ feels like a botched clone of NetInfo.  I
> > suggest
> > you read up a LOT on NIS+ before putting it into place.
> 
> How about using an LDAP server instead? If you're using Solaris 8 on the
> clients, there is now an LDAP authentication module that you can use. I
> haven't tried it yet, but I can't wait to try. Goodbye NIS/NIS+!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> George
> 
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