On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:34 -0600, aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> I would suggest LDAP as NIS/NIS+ are slowly dying out in favour of
> LDAP.
My point started with ...
"It makes it extremely easy and painless."
In other words, it would take _less_ effort to setup than to manually
figure out what files, copy them over, etc...
I love LDAP, and now that Netscape Directory Server is now Fedora
Directory Server, yes, for the long haul, it's great.
> You can use something like FDS or OpenLDAP to accomplish this, PADL
> has some migration scripts for this to happen. The site,
> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com has some more information about this
> under the howto's especially the Posix one.
Yes, I use the PADL tools all-the-time. But the endeavor to setup LDAP
and everything else gets involved.
Whereas you can setup the current server as an NIS server, run
"Makefile" in /var/yp and bam! You're done.
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Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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