RE: LDAP replacing NIS...?

From: Michael Cunningham (crayola@optonline.net)
Date: 01/31/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:45:58 -0500
From: Michael Cunningham <crayola@optonline.net>
To: tps@unslept.com, 'Matt Harris' <mdh@unix.si.edu>

> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:21:57PM -0500, Matt Harris wrote:
> > Good website for doing LDAP auth for Solaris with OpenLDAP
> using LDAPS
> > (for encrypted ldap connectivity).
> > http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/LDAP.html
>
> Does anyone know of documentation on how to replicate netgroups
> functionality? Managing large clusters of machines with host
> attributes
> is insane...

If you are using PADL's pam_ldap for authentication, it can
use ldap groups for access control to hosts. The hosts atribute
is insane...

Mike

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