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

Richard Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Wed May 23 00:28:54 UTC 2007


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?
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