On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/11/2012 12:34 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: >> On 7/11/2012 12:13 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >>> The issue is we must convert from NIS, and LDAP is the only solution and >>> it is imposed on me. Eventually we will move to a different >>> authentication as we get more integrated. >> >> So what? It's trading one directory service for another. You still >> get login names, UIDs and GIDs. They'll just be served from an LDAP >> directory instead of NIS maps. >> > True except that the LDAP servers are in Ottowa and the NIS server is > local in the rack.
That sounds like a lot of extra latency for looking up simple things (i.e UID -> username mappings i.e. "ls -l"). I don't know if local caching is included the standard LDAP/NSS setup, but I would check myself to be sure. Good Luck, Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
