SUCCESS! (was: [lug] NIS: Linux->Solaris)

[Eric Kilfoil]

Beware the beast that is NIS.  That's a long tough and rocky road to
travel.  I'd recommend staying away from it.  Just about everyone is
moving to using LDAP as a name service.  NIS (and NIS+) are both going the
way of the dodo.  LDAP is much more powerful and doesn't contain a lot of
the limitiations and security concerns brought about by using NIS or NIS+.
On Linux, you can use the PADL nss_ldap module (probalby comes standard
with linux now), and Solaris is distributed with nss_ldap as well.
There's some catches to using OpenLDAP as a LDAP name service for Solaris.
I have a page devoted to that at http://www.ypass.net/solaris8/openldap

NIS is evil

eric

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Chittaranjan Mandal wrote:

> Hi!
>
> It looks like you had some success with running NIS clients on Solaris to
> a NIS server on Linux.
> I need to do the same.
> But, the first questions that I have is: where do I get the NIS client
> software for solaris, they all run nis+ by default now.
>
> Regards,
> Chitta
>
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