[tech] NIS
Grahame Bowland
grahame at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Mar 7 22:36:01 WST 2001
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:56:14PM +0800, David Cake wrote:
> > >
> >> LDAP being flavour of the month, are there auth-by-LDAP solutions for
> > > Tru64? Mustang?
>
> There is all sorts of LDAP related goodness at
> http://www.padl.com/ including an LDAP to NIS server that sources NIS
> info from LDAP (commercial, unfortunately, but might respond to
> begging to extend his 30 day eval), PAM and NSS LDAP clients for
> linux etc (they are open source, though), Perl scripts to help in
> NIS to LDAP migration, etc. Luke Howard who wrote it all is a cool
> smart guy.
The NIS server was something I hoped to write myself - perhaps it's
time for a Free (TM) alternative.
> There is also stuff to do with NetInfo there, but I suspect
> only I care :-(
Ooh, can I play with freaky old Apple technologies as well as Sun ones? :)
The University (TM) is extremely interested in solutions to the
Mac<->LDAP<->NetInfo problem. The best we've thought of is an OS X server
box running PAM (it supports it apparently.)
- Grahame
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