[CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

Sun Apr 12 12:28:48 UTC 2020
Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>

On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 08:13 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2020, at 05:47, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote:
> > There are other options than LDAP, and servers other than OpenLDAP, but
> > LDAP is the de facto standard.
> 
> Unfortunately,  OpenLDAP as a server is deprecated in C8, and isn’t
> packaged anymore.  Upstream they point customers to their directory
> service, which is based on 389 directory service. 
> 
<sigh> Why on Earth is deprecated?  I suppose they want people to use
FreeIPA, which is a bit of a steam-hammer-to-crack-wallnut type thing. 

P.