[Fedora-directory-users] NIS to LDAP (N2L) service?

[Richard Megginson]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hello all, my company is currently considering moving from NIS to LDAP.
> I've begun this project using Sun's Directory Server (Sun One or Sun
> Java One whatever it's called these days).
>
> Their NIS server has a useful feature in that one can leave the NIS
> daemons running and configure them to use your LDAP store as their
> backend.  This would be perfect for us as our network contains many old
> Unix hosts that cannot do LDAP and will need to rely on legacy NIS for
> some time.  However, we'd like to be able to enjoy the other benefits
> that LDAP offers and migrate the rest of the clients at a more
> leisurely pace.
>
> You can see details on Sun's N2L setup here:
>
>   http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4556/6maort2tt?a=view
>
> Now, I realize that this may be out of the scope of the FDS project,
> but I thought someone here surely must have needed to do the same
> thing.
>
> Any suggestions?  I guess I could potentially use Sun's N2L setup
> against a FDS back-end...
>   
That might work.  I remember at one point there was an open source 
project to write an NIS to LDAP gateway - a quick search of google 
turned up nothing.
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Ray
>
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