[CentOS] Moving the Home dir to new server
Todd Cary
todd at aristesoftware.com
Sat Sep 3 02:23:56 UTC 2005
Is there a rpm that can be installed via yum for nis? In reading the
HOWTO, some of the referred to components are present, yet others are not.
Also, the port mapper is not running and I am not sure what man page
addresses that.
Any help/suggestions are appreciated.
Todd
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:34 -0600, aly.dharshi at telus.net wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>I would suggest LDAP as NIS/NIS+ are slowly dying out in favour of
>>LDAP.
>>
>>
>
>My point started with ...
> "It makes it extremely easy and painless."
>
>In other words, it would take _less_ effort to setup than to manually
>figure out what files, copy them over, etc...
>
>I love LDAP, and now that Netscape Directory Server is now Fedora
>Directory Server, yes, for the long haul, it's great.
>
>
>
>>You can use something like FDS or OpenLDAP to accomplish this, PADL
>>has some migration scripts for this to happen. The site,
>>http://directory.fedora.redhat.com has some more information about this
>>under the howto's especially the Posix one.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, I use the PADL tools all-the-time. But the endeavor to setup LDAP
>and everything else gets involved.
>
>Whereas you can setup the current server as an NIS server, run
>"Makefile" in /var/yp and bam! You're done.
>
>
>
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