Re: NIS with LDAP
This is why I like Debian. Someone post a message about a bledding edge
thing (LDAP with NIS) and the main mantainer of LDAP packages (that know very
about this thing) answers in the following post in -user.
Thanks guys! :)
Paulo Henrique
Quoting Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org):
> On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 06:26:02PM +0300, Dan Pomohaci wrote:
> > Is possible to use LDAP as NIS? How can I do it? I read
> > umlich-ldap-doc but I found nothing about.
> > I have a small old (486) network (10 computers) working in Debian (slink
> > version).
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Yes it is possible. I suggest using openldapd package for the server and
> then install libpam-ldap and libnss-ldap for the clients to use and access
> the LDAP directory for NS and authentication. The libnss-ldap package has
> some pointers to get you started with NSLdap.
>
> Also, you can look on {www,ftp}.padl.com for more information, and some
> scripts that help migrate to NSLdap.
>
> Note: applications will need to support PAM for authentication against the
> ldap server. UID/GID lookups will be automatic with libnss-ldap (after
> editing /etc/nsswitch.conf) since it adds the service to libc's standard
> lookup services.
>
> Ben
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