Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, We are currently running NIS for authentication but would like to migrate to LDAP. Thing is, though, that some of the machines that authenticate via NIS are so old I'd rather not even touch them. Hence the

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/08/11 3:56 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: If you are set on using CentOS, I think you will need to use the RedHat IPA product instead. But the only success stories that I am familiar with are from the v1.x IPA product, which is old.

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-08 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: You're welcome!  I have used FreeIPA in the past with great success (though not specifically as an NIS data source). So if you do pursue FreeIPA, I highly recommend joining their separate mailing list

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
I have not used FreeIPA on CentOS. As I said previously, I highly recommend using Fedora servers as your FreeIPA servers, because it will install much easier and you should be able to get support from the freeipa-users mailing list. If you are set on using CentOS, I think you will need to use the

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-08 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:50:07PM -0800, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: I have not used FreeIPA on CentOS. As I said previously, I highly recommend using Fedora servers as your FreeIPA servers, because it will install much easier and you should be able to get support from the freeipa-users mailing

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-05 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 09:11:01PM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: Hence the question - is there a good way to have an NIS server for user authentication that is a mirror image of an LDAP server, with a proviso that an

[CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, We are currently running NIS for authentication but would like to migrate to LDAP. Thing is, though, that some of the machines that authenticate via NIS are so old I'd rather not even touch them. Hence the question - is there a good way to have an NIS server for user

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-04 Thread Jonathan Nilsson
Hence the question - is there a good way to have an NIS server for user authentication that is a mirror image of an LDAP server, with a proviso that an update introduced there is replicated in the LDAP server's databases? I don't know of any syncing mechanisms between an existing NIS

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: Hence the question - is there a good way to have an NIS server for user authentication that is a mirror image of an LDAP server, with a proviso that an update introduced there is replicated in the LDAP server's databases?