[Discuss] Moving servers from NIS to LDAP

[Richard Pieri]

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.

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Rich P.