[Discuss] Moving servers from NIS to LDAP

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 07/11/2012 03:09 PM, Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote:
> 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
>
Yes. I'm not all that concerned about locally mapping stuff. It is just
a bit of extra work. A local slave replication of local caching would be
better. The issue right now is to get the TOR people to make a few
decisions.

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