Promoting LDAP vs NIS on RHL

Wed Jul 23 23:23:24 UTC 2003

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:15, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> We found that turning on nscd with openldap w/db4 had the speeds
> equivalent to NIS. However our ldap tables may just be lucky enough to
> be fast.

And to be fair - I found that it helps ldap too. but then you suffer
nscd's problems of over-caching passwords with other uid information.

unless you're using kerberos - and then if you are I'm not sure how much
ldap saves you over nis.

-sv