Posted by: Administrator
on September 02, 2004 10:52 AM
We are in the process of switching our production from NIS to ldap. We've had our LDAP solution in production for the past year, with lots of design.
To make a long story short, we went with the Solaris DS 5.2 solution. It's a mature product, and very reliable. Also, the docs on sunsolve.sun.com and docs.sun.com are useful (along with testing) on getting everything working.
Once you've gotten solaris working (we did sol8 and 9, and will let attrition address earlier versions), Linux support was very easy by comparison.
HP-UX doesn't (at this point) support LDAP for automount. It will do auth, but I'm waiting for HP to wake up and get it working.
We didn't want to use OpenLDAP, as we wanted everything to work using the default scripts from Sun. After all, Sun came up with NIS. They're leading the move to LDAP.
One thing to keep in mind is to use the latest ldap patches from Sun. Sun is still getting bug reports for boundary cases, and keeping up on the LDAP client patches is a good idea.
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Posted by: Administrator on September 02, 2004 10:52 AMTo make a long story short, we went with the Solaris DS 5.2 solution. It's a mature product, and very reliable. Also, the docs on sunsolve.sun.com and docs.sun.com are useful (along with testing) on getting everything working.
Once you've gotten solaris working (we did sol8 and 9, and will let attrition address earlier versions), Linux support was very easy by comparison.
HP-UX doesn't (at this point) support LDAP for automount. It will do auth, but I'm waiting for HP to wake up and get it working.
We didn't want to use OpenLDAP, as we wanted everything to work using the default scripts from Sun. After all, Sun came up with NIS. They're leading the move to LDAP.
One thing to keep in mind is to use the latest ldap patches from Sun. Sun is still getting bug reports for boundary cases, and keeping up on the LDAP client patches is a good idea.
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