On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> Quoth guy keren on Tue, Apr 18, 2000:
> > 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?
>
> All go via ypbind.So this is less of a problem if you're
> talking about accounting only.It is possible to emulate ypbind
> interface with a program which really connects to an LDAP server.
Actually, you can use ypldapd (a commerical product) which provides a YP
interface to an LDAP server. So you can run LDAP and still support old YP
clients. It costs about $1000. I haven't used it.
> Vadik.
>
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