From: Don Becker (don@adelphi.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 11:39:19 EDT
We're in the process of migrating from NIS/Enhanced Security to an LDAP
implementation for our authentication scheme, as was suggested to me by the
members of this list some time ago. However, some of our research has come
up short.
First, our hardware:
Current NIS master and slave: Tru64 v4.0a
Current NIS clients: v4.0a and v3.2g
Proposed LDAP master: v5.1a
In looking through the OSIS/Internet Express documentation on the HP
website (our 5.1a media and Internet Express kit are en route) , it appears
that the passwd_extract utility will create LDAP-compatible files from a
passwd file. However, under Enhanced Security, the NIS passwd map has
dummy entries for the passwords, as those are stored in prpasswd. My
questions, since there doesn't seem to be a mention of this in the docs,
are:
- Can I get the password info from prpasswd through passwd_extract, and if
so, how?
- Will OpenLDAP or iPlanet work in a mixed-version environment? (I'd
prefer not to upgrade the v4.0f client to v5.1a, especially since our
time frame for this project is limited, even if it means ordering v5.4
of the OSIS disc.)
Thanks,
--Don
-- Don Becker don@adelphi.edu http://www.donbecker.org Unix System Administrator, Adelphi University http://www.adelphi.edu
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