Dear P., NIS is out. Don’t ask me why. Ask the developer. On our cluster it is still in use, but for the next instance I must use LDAP or compile the packages by my self. Best wishes Andy > Am 12.04.2020 um 14:28 schrieb 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos