On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:06:31PM +0000, Gary Greene wrote: > NSCD is also necessary if you're running an LDAP or NIS environment, Not necessary in a NIS environment on a LAN 'cos NIS is UDP based and very very fast to respond. LDAP, however, pretty much needs nscd (or sssd) in order to be halfway near performant. -- rgds Stephen