Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:03:28 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Brandon Huey" <brandon@recluse.net>, "Oscar Bonilla" <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: "Robin Huiser" <listmail@node10c55.a2000.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: LDAP or NIS? Message-ID: <008601beefdc$88fa4820$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908260752430.92009-100000@marithe.recluse.net>
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Hi, If you want an advice, you can try this link, its a Linux Link, but it has a lot of good info: http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-07/lw-07-ldap_1.html also in the bottom of the page there is a lot of sites refering to LDAP. Hope this Helps Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Brandon Huey <brandon@recluse.net> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: Robin Huiser <listmail@node10c55.a2000.nl>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 9:56 AM Subject: Re: LDAP or NIS? > > i think that if this question is being asked, then it's safe to say you > aren;t ready to commit to LDAPifying your network. > > getting LDAP working, getting LDAP authenticating in order to replace NIS > takes quite a bit of work. you can get NIS running within 30 minutes of > cracking a manpage, then you can plan your LDAP rollout. > > that's how i recommend doing things. > > > On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:15:22PM +0200, Robin Huiser wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Having multiple FreeBSD servers I was wondering which program to use to manage logins, passwords, permissions, etc... > > > > > > Please give me some advise... > > > > > > > NIS. LDAP doesn't really work. there are some issues involved that > > were discussed a while ago, but it boils down to to all of the get*by* > > functions in the C library being unable to get user info via ldap. > > the conclusion was that we needed the nsswitch funcionality that > > solaris and linux have. see the lists for more info. hint: search for > > NSS. > > > > regards, > > > > -Oscar > > > > -- > > For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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