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

[Ray Van Dolson]

Hello all, my company is currently considering moving from NIS to LDAP.
I've begun this project using Sun's Directory Server (Sun One or Sun
Java One whatever it's called these days).

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.

You can see details on Sun's N2L setup here:

  http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4556/6maort2tt?a=view

Now, I realize that this may be out of the scope of the FDS project,
but I thought someone here surely must have needed to do the same
thing.

Any suggestions?  I guess I could potentially use Sun's N2L setup
against a FDS back-end...

Thanks in advance...

Ray

[Rich Megginson]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>  Hello all, my company is currently considering moving from NIS to
> LDAP.
>  I've begun this project using Sun's Directory Server (Sun One or Sun
>  Java One whatever it's called these days).
>
>  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.
>
>  You can see details on Sun's N2L setup here:
>
>    http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4556/6maort2tt?a=view
>
>  Now, I realize that this may be out of the scope of the FDS project,
>  but I thought someone here surely must have needed to do the same
>  thing.
>
>  Any suggestions?  I guess I could potentially use Sun's N2L setup
>  against a FDS back-end...
>     
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.
>  Thanks in advance...
>
>  Ray
>
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[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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[Rich Megginson]

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?

[Cédric Delfosse]

Le mardi 22 mai 2007 à 18:28 -0600, Richard Megginson a écrit :
>  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? 
http://ypanything.sourceforge.net/ ?

Regards,

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[George Holbert]

N2L can be made to work with any directory server.  If you'll want help 
from Sun, they of course would recommend their own server.  But FDS 
should be fine, if you're willing to do the work to set it up per N2L 
requirements.

Instead of N2L, you could also roll your own LDAP-to-NIS dump scripts.

PADL also makes a NIS gateway product:
http://www.padl.com/Products/NISLDAPGateway.html


Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>  Hello all, my company is currently considering moving from NIS to
> LDAP.
>  I've begun this project using Sun's Directory Server (Sun One or Sun
>  Java One whatever it's called these days).
>
>  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.
>
>  You can see details on Sun's N2L setup here:
>
>    http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4556/6maort2tt?a=view
>
>  Now, I realize that this may be out of the scope of the FDS project,
>  but I thought someone here surely must have needed to do the same
>  thing.
>
>  Any suggestions?  I guess I could potentially use Sun's N2L setup
>  against a FDS back-end...
>
>  Thanks in advance...
>
>  Ray
>