[wplug] nis replacement

[Poyner, Brandon]

You'd still be using nsswitch.conf with LDAP.  The man pages are out of
date even on Fedora Core 3 but they do hint to the answer:

	For  glibc,  you  must have a file called
/lib/libnss_SERVICE.so.X for
      every SERVICE you are using. On a standard installation, you could
use
      'files',  'db',  'nis',  and  'nisplus'.

$ ls /lib/libnss_ldap*
/lib/libnss_ldap-2.3.3.so  /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2

When automount is called it would reference LDAP instead of
/etc/auto.misc if you had the line 'automount: ldap'

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086

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[mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf Of John
Harrold
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [wplug] nis replacement

Sometime in March Poyner, Brandon assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Have you considered moving to LDAP?  

This is where my knowledge sort of runs up against a wall. How would
ldap
work in this case? Say I want to make /etc/auto.misc from a fileserver
available to workstations. How would autofs on a workstation know to
look
at an ldap server to get the that file (/etc/auto.misc)? I didn't see a
service specification for ldap in the man page for nsswitch.conf. So
would
autofs have to have some sort of built in support for ldap?

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