Bryan -
Sounds like it is time to break out the books....
And this sounds like NIS will work in some capacity for backups...right?
Todd
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:34 -0600, aly.dharshi@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.