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

Cédric Delfosse cedric.delfosse at linbox.com
Wed May 23 12:31:05 UTC 2007


Le mardi 22 mai 2007 à 18:28 -0600, Richard Megginson a écrit :
> Norman Gaywood wrote:
> > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:22:34PM -0600, Richard Megginson wrote:
> >   
> >> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> 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.
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> >> 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.
> >>     
> >
> > It's not open source, but there is:
> >
> > http://www.padl.com/Products/NISLDAPGateway.html
> >   
> There was another one, done by a student.  I can't remember where to 
> find it.  Anyone?

http://ypanything.sourceforge.net/ ?

Regards,

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