LDAP vs NIS?

Nitro · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:12 am Post subject: LDAP vs NIS?

Has anyone setup either LDAP or NIS successfully? I just want something that will keep all my UIDs, GIDs, and passwords the same across several linux boxes. I want it to work securly, cleanly and transparently.

I tried reading up on them and as I understand it NIS was developed my SUN and ported to Linux, and is still in part closed source. LDAP on the other hand is competely open source and capable of handling more then just user authentication?

Am I correct or am I missing something? I can't seem to get LDAP working, from what I've read LDAP is a better solution, yes?
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ves · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 30

i've never played with NIS, but LDAP is pretty cool. I've used it before to setup a qmail/ldap pop toaster.

Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

I haven't set up LDAP since my network is small and I never add new users. I just copied passwd/shadow/group around. :p

I have heard that it can be used to store things like certificates, so you could use PKI to authenticate users instead of passwords if you wanted to.

ozric100 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 136

If you are up to it. http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

Nitro, you told me you got LDAP up and running. I don't understand it completely. What am I doing wrong?

I installed 'openldap' and 'pam_ldap' on both the server and the client. I replaced the original 'pam.d' directory from '/etc' with the 'pam.d' directory in '/usr/doc/pam_ldap-134-r1' and unzipped all the files.

Than I edited some configfiles:
/etc/ldap.conf on server:

tebers · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 10:27 pm Post subject:

well, if you want read good material bout ldap i can recommend and ibm-redbook

link

or

link

or just go to www.redbooks.ibm.com and search for ldap

they have really tons of good documentations there.
as I remember ibm and lotus have been really heavy involved with creating ldap

thorsten

Guest · Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 12:27 pm Post subject:

i've tried ldap and nis

i chose ldap because it was much simpler to integrate with samba
with nis, it was a pain to synchronise passwords between samba and unix

if you are looking to go with a pure unix solution then
ldap for keeping uids and gids the same
and kerberos for authentication

and try and find as many kerbelized services as you can
this way, you log in once, and you don't have to keep on re-authenticating

ramirezevanswa · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 3

NIS is dying out everywhere. But LDAP may be overkill for a small home LAN.LDAP is very conciliatory but very complicated as well. Where I work we use it for authentication to our web site but the other systems are a mix of NIS and mostly NIS+.I can setup a NIS domain for 50000 users in under 30 minutes for a global organization including old hardware. Windows can work nicely with LDAP
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Nitro · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:34 am Post subject:

Holy thread resurrection, batman!

This thread is over 8 years old.

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cach0rr0 · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject:

thread 1334
we're up to ~850,000 now.

I don't think i could find a thread this old if I'd actively sought it out.
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