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 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. > > > > -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050902/bd1e2513/attachment-0005.html>