On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:11 -0500, T.J. Yang wrote: > Reading RFC 2307 Section 5.1 and 5.2 but it is still vague for me. > Which OS and which software module has Secction 5.2 functions implemented ? I have done a degree of NIS replacement (passwd, group and automount entries) using the Fedora Core Linux operating system as both the client and the server. The LDAP server I used was OpenLDAP. The functions in section 5.2 are normally implemented in the standard libc library. On Fedora Core that is glibc, and the implementation uses the files /etc/nsswitch.conf to determine which directory to use to lookup information: files, NIS, LDAP, etc. For authentication you may also need to configure the PAM system to use LDAP. Fedora Core provides a utility called system-config-authentication that has a simple GUI for configuring these systems. Support on other operating systems and libc implementations will vary, you should contact the vendors or appropriate support groups for those operating systems. Keith.
