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[Discuss] Moving servers from NIS to LDAP



On 07/11/2012 02:57 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> 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

You can setup a local ldap slave replication server, which would also be
convenient if the external network goes down. For the migration, a
mapping file and script to update uids/guids would probably work just fine.
		Cheers,
			Nuno

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http://aeminium.org/nuno/





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