[Discuss] Moving servers from NIS to LDAP

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 12:34 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> On 7/11/2012 12:13 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>> The issue is we must convert from NIS, and LDAP is the only solution and
>>> it is imposed on me. Eventually we will move to a different
>>> authentication as we get more integrated.
>>
>> So what?  It's trading one directory service for another.  You still
>> get login names, UIDs and GIDs.  They'll just be served from an LDAP
>> directory instead of NIS maps.
>>
> True except that the LDAP servers are in Ottowa and the NIS server is
> local in the rack.

That sounds like a lot of extra latency for looking up simple things
(i.e UID -> username mappings i.e. "ls -l").  I don't know if local
caching is included the standard LDAP/NSS setup, but I would check
myself to be sure.

Good Luck,
Bill Bogstad