From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 9: 6:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megared.net.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A135C150C1 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (pix.megared.net.mx [207.249.162.253]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA44422; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:04:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <008601beefdc$88fa4820$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Brandon Huey" , "Oscar Bonilla" Cc: "Robin Huiser" , References: Subject: RE: LDAP or NIS? Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:03:28 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Oscar Bonilla Cc: Robin Huiser ; 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