Hi Kang,
You should get the "LDAP System Administration" by Gerald Carter. ISBN: 1-56592-491-6 (O'Reilly & Associates Inc.)
There you will find a chapter about replacing NIS with LDAP or make a NIS/LDAP gateway.
Very good reading :-)
//Erik
Paul Gienger wrote:
This is really something for the openldap list.
Kang Sun wrote:
Greetings!
I tried to post this question to openldap group but somehow my post never
showed up there.
Anyway, I built PDC using Samba3 and OPENLDAP and now like to integrade NIS
service to it. I searched the net there are quite a few guides on how to
replace NIS with LDAP.
However, in our environment, we have almost all sorts of Unix platforms,
e.g. Linux (mainly Redhat), Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IRIS, and plus some pretty
old OS versions. They are all NIS clients now but I don't expect they can
all be easily converted to to be authenticated against LDAP. For instance, I
don't think all of them have pam and nss ready.
I thought it would be easier if I can somehow build the NIS Server using
LDAP and maintain all NIS slaves and clients as they are, I would have an
easy mirgration path while achieving the goal of centralizing
authentication/administration of the enterprise-wide accounts on LDAP
server.
Any comments, suggestions, guidances are deeply appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
--- Kang Sun
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