Re: NIS serving?

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 04:39:17PM +0000, David Lee wrote:
> With Solaris [2.]7, Sun Microsystmes offer "Web Directory Services 3.1"
> which is basically an LDAP server.  One of its features is the ability to
> emulate a NIS (aka Yellow Pages) server, including user authentication for
> UNIX systems.  Another feature is RADIUS dialup authentication.  To us,
> these features look attractive, enabling us to unify three similar major
> administrative functions.
>
> Does OpenLDAP support NIS (and RADIUS)?  Are there any plans for this?
> Would implementing this be in sympathy with the planned development of
> OpenLDAP?

There is a program called ypldap at www.padl.com (it's commercial).
I've never used it, but it acts as a gateway between LDAP and NIS
clients (I think it works with OpenLDAP).

Something like this would be really nice in OpenLDAP's contrib section,
but there is nothing freely available yet.

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