Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-08 Thread David Sommerseth
On 08/01/15 02:26, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:27:32PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 7 January 2015 at 17:06, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: [...snip...] And I expect that you had at that point still stories from people saying NIS broke

RE: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-08 Thread James M. Pulver
“My main concern is that most places I have seen that kept with ypbind get replaced with Active Directory” In fact, we’re in the process of doing that now. We’ve got user logins and groups working well. The next challenge is the automount maps. It’s not a bad thing, in fact it has made our

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-08 Thread Karel Lang AFD
Hi guys, if i might add my view onto this matter .. :] I think the LDAP doesn't complicate things - on the contrary, it simplify them. Ofc, the installation and configuration of 389 Directory server (if speaking about RHEL and clones) is definitely much more demanding in know-how compared to

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-07 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 03:21:37PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 7 January 2015 at 14:54, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: Hehe. I remember when 20 years ago people would say the exact same thing about ypbind over some sort of script set which copied everything with root

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7 January 2015 at 17:06, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 03:21:37PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 7 January 2015 at 14:54, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: Hehe. I remember when 20 years ago people would say the exact same

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-07 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Yes, thank you for the references to the Red Hat identity management system. Of course it is based on LDAP, but also it requires use of Kerberos (which we do not have fun with in the AFS/Kerberos environement at CERN), and recommended practice is to have it take over the DNS and NTP services. To

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 7 January 2015 at 14:54, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: Yes, thank you for the references to the Red Hat identity management system. Of course it is based on LDAP, but also it requires use of Kerberos (which we do not have fun with in the AFS/Kerberos environement at

Re: ypbind not registering with rpcbind on SL7

2015-01-07 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:27:32PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 7 January 2015 at 17:06, Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca wrote: I started in this business in 1992 and our cluster of SGI machines was already based on NIS (from before my time). (I think automount/autofs/amd