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

[Hugh Brown]

How well do NFS and LDAP (particularly openldap) get along?

Hugh


On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 05:55, Eric Kilfoil wrote:
> 
> 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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