On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Gavrie Philipson wrote:
> This may not help you, but if backwards compatitibily is not required with
> an existing NIS network, I would suggest using LDAP instead of NIS. This
> works on both Linux and Solaris (using PAM and nsswitch). It is a very
> elegant solution, and IMHO much more maintainable than NIS.
and ofcourse, if you ever after that need to use a different OS - you're
stuck.... that is, unless you go and install PAM on those systems, and
replace all the (relevant) system binaries....
btw - does this architecture work for all programs on the system
transparently? i.e. any program that tried to fetch any NIS map, will be
refered to taking data via the LDAP server? in other words - are all NIS
requests routed via ypbind, or they go directly to the (remote) NIS
server?
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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