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

[Norman Gaywood]

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

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