Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Hello all, my company is currently considering moving from NIS to LDAP. > I've begun this project using Sun's Directory Server (Sun One or Sun > Java One whatever it's called these days). > > Their NIS server has a useful feature in that one can leave the NIS > daemons running and configure them to use your LDAP store as their > backend. This would be perfect for us as our network contains many old > Unix hosts that cannot do LDAP and will need to rely on legacy NIS for > some time. However, we'd like to be able to enjoy the other benefits > that LDAP offers and migrate the rest of the clients at a more > leisurely pace. > > You can see details on Sun's N2L setup here: > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4556/6maort2tt?a=view > > Now, I realize that this may be out of the scope of the FDS project, > but I thought someone here surely must have needed to do the same > thing. > > Any suggestions? I guess I could potentially use Sun's N2L setup > against a FDS back-end... > That might work. I remember at one point there was an open source project to write an NIS to LDAP gateway - a quick search of google turned up nothing. > Thanks in advance... > > Ray > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3245 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20070522/e2ea2eb1/attachment.bin
