Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-18 Thread Gavrie Philipson
guy keren wrote: > > 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 ve

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-18 Thread Yaron Zabary
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

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-18 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth guy keren on Tue, Apr 18, 2000: > running a NIS master on > solaris was out of the question. After all, Sun invented NIS... Vadik. -- When in doubt, just be yourself. And if that fails, su root. = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-18 Thread Vadim Vygonets
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 di

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-17 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Alexander Indenbaum wrote: > Does anyone has experience in setting NIS on Linux + Solaris network? > Which should be chosen as NIS server Linux or Solaris? > Are there any compatibility issues? i've been running a configuration with a linux box running as the NIS master, an

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-17 Thread guy keren
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 IM

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-17 Thread Gavrie Philipson
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. Gavrie. - Ori

Re: NIS on Linux + Solaris

2000-04-17 Thread Vadim Vygonets
Quoth Alexander Indenbaum on Mon, Apr 17, 2000: > Does anyone has experience in setting NIS on Linux + Solaris network? Not exactly... But I tried to make both Linux and Solaris acting as YP servers in different points of my life. SOLARIS SUCKS! Well, Linux does, too. > Which should be chosen