[CentOS] CentOS 8 NIS

Mon Apr 13 01:49:58 UTC 2020
John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com>

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 6:43 PM Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2020-04-12 08:13, 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.
> >
>
> Okay, I found
>
> https://directory.fedoraproject.org/docs/389ds/download.html.
>
> Thank you for the useful reply.
>
> It appears that they just pasted a new name on an old horse.  It's still
> LDAP.
>
>
yes, its the standardized LDAP protocol...

it is, however, a completely different implementation, so no, its not
OpenLDAP, which is a specific implementation.



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